The Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 6: The Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Acton, John Emerich Edward

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ISBN 10: 0282991174 ISBN 13: 9780282991173

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 6: The Eighteenth Century

HE present volume covers a section of time falling far short of that implied by the literal meaning of the word. But it seems hardly necessary to defend the use of the term the Eighteenth Century, as denoting a period of Modern History with characteristics peculiar to itself and exhibiting a more or less self-consistent development of its own. We have accordingly, without doing much violence to ordinary usage, restricted the application of the term to the years reaching from the Peace of Utrecht and the supplementary pacifications to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Moreover, the original design of this work has made it necessary, not only to discuss in the volume dealing with the Revolution itself those earlier aspects of the political and social condition of France and of her administrative and financial system, well as those new currents of philosophical thought and literary effort, which have to be taken into account in tracing its origin; but also to devote a large part of another volume, concerned with the history of the United States, to a narrative of the War of Independence and an examination of its causes. It has therefore been our desire to avoid whatever recurrence to these topics was not needed in order to make clear the course of European history, and of the history of particular States, within the limits deliberately chosen from the outset for the present volume. Nevertheless, as it seems to us, these limits may be justly designated natural; in other words, they are prescribed by the nature of the subject, and not only by our desire to adhere, in essential matters, to the original scheme of this History. In the political annals of Europe, and of those other parts of the world whose progress was directly affected.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0282991174
• ISBN 13: 9780282991173
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1072