Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789

by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, the third edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated with new scholarship and an emphasis on environmental history, travel and migration, race and cultural blending, and the circulation of goods and knowledge. Summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations, and discussion questions illuminate the narrative and support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skillfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional, and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious, and cultural history of the period.

594 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2022

About the author

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Reviews

[Tjalling Snabilie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good summary of everything that went down, but my God, does this book require a lot of patience to get through.

[Oline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Har aldri vært trist over å vær ferdig med en skolebok, men en gang må være den første.

[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

an incredibly comprehensive (chunky) overview of the period and actual kinda fun to read when you got to bits you might be interested in. wow did that take a while though