Ebook: Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations

This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history. Acknowledgments; Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of Rome; 2 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems; 3 History, Myth and Historical Identity; 4 The Theresian School Reform of 1774; 5 The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture; 6 Ira Dei Super Nos; 7 The Charitable Activities of Confraternities; 8 The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796); 9 "Dutiful Love and Natural Affection": Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands