Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (The Norton History of Modern Europe) - Softcover

Woloch, Isser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393952142 ISBN 13: 9780393952148

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981

Synopsis

The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain, and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to shake the foundations of the old regime well before 1789.

Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, especially the innovations of French social history, Isser Woloch paints an unusually rich and detailed portrait of eighteenth-century European life and society. Among the new topics he covers are the family economy of the poor, popular culture and the circulation of books, changing patterns of crime and punishment, and the social history of military and religious institutions.

About this title

About the Author:

Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. His publications include The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, which won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0393952142
• ISBN 13: 9780393952148
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364