Headlines in history the 1600s
Emphasizing changes in scientific thought and the social structure, this book discusses Western Europe's rejection of traditional authority, the colonization of America, and the concept of a nation with a national government.
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San Diego, CA
Greenhaven press
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Scientific revolution
- Experimental method: New framework for science
- From mathematics to microscopes: Advances in biology
- On the mechanism of the human mind
- Impressions of Peter the great
- Manchu dynasty rules China
- Establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan
- Chapter 4
- James I: The beginning of Stuart Rule
- Civil wars of 1640-1660: An overview
- Trial and execution of Charles Stuart
- Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660
- Leviathan: An artificial man
- Glorious revolution of 1688
- Essay concerning the true end of civil government
- Chapter 5
- Thirty years' war: Overview
- Rise of swedish influence
- Peace of westphalia
- Reign of Louis XIV
- Lessons in kingship for the dauphin
- Golden age of Dutch commerce
- Fall of the Ottoman empire
- Chapter 6
- Music during the baroque period
- Vitality of Baroque painting
- Golden age of the theater
- Literature of the seventeenth century
- Matsuo Basho: Master of haika and renga
- Walk through the Taj Mahal
- Middle class in seventeenth-century France
- Great fire of London.