Fractured Europe

David J. Sturdy is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. His previous publications include The d'Aligres de la Rivière: Servants of the Bourbon State in the Seventeenth Century (1986), Science and Social Status in Early Modern France: The Members of the Académie des Sciences, 1666-1750 (1995) and Louis XIV (1998).

Acknowledgements.

Preface.

List of Maps.

List of Illustrations.

1. The Context of 1600.

2. Central and Southern Europe: 1600-1635.

3. Central and Southern Europe: 1635-1648.

4. Western Europe: 1600-1660: Spain and France.

5. Western Europe: 1603-1660: Britain and the United Provinces.

6. Northern Europe: 1618-1660: Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.

Interlude.

7. Central and Southern Europe with the Ottoman Empire: 1660-1720.

8. Western Europe: 1660-1720: France and Spain.

9. Western Europe: 1660-1720: Britain the United Provinces and War.

10. Northern Europe: 1660-1721: Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.

Concluding Discussion.

List of Significant Dates.

Bibliography.

This work presents a narrative history of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, from the end of the 16th century to the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721. It is organized around geographical regions, paying as much attention to northern and eastern Europe, as to western and southern.