RISE OF THE MODERN WEST - II

Course Objective:

(i) This paper will help the students to know about the 17th century European
crisis, the English Revolution
(ii) The Scientific development from 15th to 17th century , Growth of mercantilism
(iii) End of Absolute Monarchy and growth of Parliamentary Democracy
(iv) The American and Industrial Revolutio

Unit-1 17th century European crisis:
economic, social and political
dimensions.

Unit-2 The English Revolution:
major issues; political and intellectual
currents.

Unit-3 Rise of Modern Science in relation to European society
from the Renaissance to the 17th century.
Mercantilism and European economics;
17th and 18th
centuries.

Unit-4 European politics in the 18th century:
parliamentary
monarchy; patterns of Absolutism in Europe.

Unit-5
(a) Political and economic issues in the American Revolution.
(b) Preludes to the Industrial Revolution.

Recommended Readings:

T.S. Aston and C.H.E. Philpin (eds.), The Brenner Debate.
H. Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science.
Carlo M. Cipolla, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and
III.Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy, 1000
-1700. 3rd ed. (1993)
D.C. Coleman (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism.
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics.
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
J.R. Hale, Renaissance Europe.
R. Hall, From Galileo to Newton.
Christopher Hill, A Century of Revolutions.
Rodney Hilton, Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.
H.G. Koenigsberger and G.L. Mosse, Europe in the Sixteenth Century.
Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History, 1494 - 1789.
G. Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598 - 1648.
G. Parker and L.M. Smith, General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
J.H. Parry, The Age of Renaissance.
Meenaxi Phukan, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic History of Early Modern
Europe.
V. Poliensiky, War and Society in Europe. 1618 -48.
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe.
V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, 1400-1715.
Jan de Vries, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600 รป 1750.
M. S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Perry Anderson, The Lineages of the Absolutist State.
Stuart Andrews, Eighteenth Century Europe.
B. H. Slicher von Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe. AD. 500 - 1850.
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. I - VI.
James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France, New Approaches to European History.
G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517-1559.
M. P. Gilmore, The World of Humanism. 1453-1517.
Peter Kriedte, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists.
J. Lynch, Spain under the Hapsburgs.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial revolution.
Harry Miskimin, The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe: 1460-1600.
Charles A. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance (1996).
The New Cambridge Modern History of Europe, Vols. I - VII.
L. W. Owie, Seventeenth Century Europe.
D. H. Pennington, Seventeenth Century Europe.
F. Rice, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe

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