A History of Europe in the Modern World

Palmer/Colton/Kramer A History of Europe in the Modern World 11e Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Chronologies, Historical Interpretations and Debates, Maps, Charts, and Tables Preface Geography and History Chapter 1 The Rise of Europe Chapter 2 The Upheaval in Western Christendom, 1300-1560 Chapter 3 The Atlantic World, Commerce, and Wars of Religion, 1560-1648 Chapter 4 The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640-1715 Chapter 5 The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740 Chapter 6 The Scientific View of the World Chapter 7 The Global Struggle for Wealth and Empire Chapter 8 The Age of Enlightenment Chapter 9 The French Revolution Chapter 10 Napoleonic Europe Chapter 11 Industries, Ideas, and the Struggle for Reform, 1815-1848 Chapter 12 Revolutions and the Reimposition of Order, 1848-1870 Chapter 13 The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859-1871 Chapter 14 European Civilization, 1871-1914: Economy and Politics Chapter 15 European Civilization, 1871-1914: Society and Culture Chapter 16 Europe's World Supremacy, 1871-1914 Chapter 17 The First World War Chapter 18 The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of the Soviet Union Chapter 19 Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis after the First World War Chapter 20 Democracy and Dictatorship in the 1930s Chapter 21 The Second World War Chapter 22 The Cold War and Reconstruction after the Second World War Chapter 23 Decolonization and the Breakup of the European Empires Chapter 24 Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New European Economy Chapter 25 The International Revolt against Soviet Communism Chapter 26 Europe and the Changing Modern World Appendix Rulers and Regimes Suggestions for Further Reading Index

R.R. Palmer was born in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he received his PhD from Cornell University in 1934. From 1936 to 1963 he taught at Princeton University, taking leave during World War II to work on historical projects in Washington, DC. In 1963 he moved to Washington University in St. Louis to serve as dean of arts and sciences, and in 1969 he resumed his career in teaching and research, this time at Yale. After his retirement he lived in Princeton, where he was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study, and then in a retirement community in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Of the numerous books he wrote, translated, and edited, three of the most important are his Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France (1939); Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (1941, 1989); and his two-volume Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959, 1964), the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1970, received honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad, and was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in Rome in 1990. He was a long-time Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 2002, widely recognized as one of the preeminent historians of his generation.