The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25
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The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25 by J S Bromley
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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'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 …' The Times Literary Supplement
Born in 1913, John Selwyn Bromley was educated at Bedford School and at New College, Oxford, before serving briefly as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool before the outbreak of war. He joined the Civil Service and was Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1941 and 1946. He was Fellow in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford, between 1947 and 1960, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton, between 1960 and 1977. He published widely and is best known for Volume VI of the New Cambridge Modern History, published in 1970. He was a keen promoter of Anglo-Dutch historical studies, and initiated a series of conferences in this field; as a result, he was made a Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1976. He was elected an honorary Vice-President of the Society for Nautical Research in 1981, and died in Southampton on 17 April 1985, aged 71.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521293969 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521293960 |
| Title | The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25 |
| Author | J S Bromley |
| Series | The New Cambridge Modern History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1979-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 972 |
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