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      • Volume 6: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      02 July 1970
      ISBN:
      9781139055826
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521075244
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, British History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - British & European History
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Modern History (6)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, British History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - British & European History
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Modern History (6)
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    Volume VI draws attention to two of the paramount developments which, with the growth of the Hapsburg monarchy, affected all of Europe and many parts of the Americas during the period under survey. War, politics, and society in Western Europe are studied from the English Revolution to the death of Louis XIV, and elsewhere from the accession of Charles XII to the death of Peter the Great (and for the Ottoman Empire to 1730). There is a survey of European maritime commerce extending to all important traffic within the overseas world, and a chapter on population and prices in Europe. Although much space is necessarily occupied by war and diplomacy, and by new methods of conducting them, the cultural and religious history of the period was of fundamental importance to the Enlightenment that was to follow. In this and other respects, the present volume complements volumes V and VII.

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    ‘… this is one of the best volumes of the NCMH yet to appear; it is well planned, [the] editorial direction is firm and enlightened, and the standard of the individual contributions is high …’

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    ‘As might be expected from the distinguished team of contributors, the content of the individual chapters is authoritative, learned and intelligent, and great care has been taken to eliminate contradictions and overlaps …'

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