Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1145-1186).
Formatted Contents Note:
The Renaissance and Reformation. Europe in the Middle Ages ; The Renaissance ; Principalities and powers ; The crisis of Christianity and Christendom -- Early modern Europe : 1559-1715. The search for new structures ; The struggles for empire ; Early modern culture -- An age of revolutions : 1715-1848. The world and its horizons ; Structures in transition ; Constitutional evolution in Britain ; Revolutionary change in France ; The peace of Humpty Dumpty ; The balance of the powers ; Sense and sensibility : the Enlightenment ; Sense and sensibility : the romantic reaction -- The age of masses : 1848 to the present : the end of European hegemony. International perspectives ; National counterpoint : internal affairs, 1848-1918 ; The world from war to war ; National counterpoint : internal affairs since 1918 ; The material revolution ; The latest age : 1945 to the present.