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early modern The Early Modern period is a period of change and reorientation. The period begins with economic and religous upheavals in Europe, as the opposed forces of Reformation and Counter-reformation struggle, plunging Europe into bloody warfare of a kind never seen before. This is also a period of growth and of opening; the age of discovery, when the establishment of new trade routes and new forms of mercantile endeavour create the basis for a qualitatively as well as quantitatively different world economy. In this period, my interest lies chiefly with the East India trade (particularly of the Danish East India Company) and with the Thirty Years' War.
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Book recommendations: Early Modern Europe 1500-1789 (History of Europe) by Helmut Koenigsberger War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618-1789 by Matthew Smith Anderson ...in association with Amazon.com |
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Updated: August 10, 1998.