Eastern & Western History, Thought & Culture, 1600-1815

This book provides a broad, integrated, and reasonably comprehensive surveyóboth geographically and topicallyóof political, intellectual and cultural currents of the 17th and 18th centuries. Contents: Preface; Political and Economic Background; Emergence of a New World View: Forces in Contention; Baroque Cultural Currents, Politics, Economics, and Society; The 18th Century: Political, Economic, and Artistic Currents; 18th Century Music and Literature; Science and Humanism: The Rise of a New Deity; Historians and Colonies; The American Colonial Experience; Tension, Conflict and Freedom; A New Covenant Nation Under God; Cultural, Religious, and Intellectual Patterns in the New American Nation; Oriental Civilization and Western Expansion; The Rediscovery of China by the West; The Emergence of Russia; The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia; Enlightenment Despotism in Flower; The "Radical Enlightenment"; Philosophies, Anti-Philosophes, Jansenists, Encyclopedists and Freemasons; The Crucible of Revolution; Napoleon and Europe; The Cultural Milieu of the Napoleonic Age; Pictures; Maps; Bibliography; Index.