Synopses & Reviews
Between roughly 1350 and 1650, Europe underwent seismic changes in economics, politics, culture, and religion. Feudal monarchies were reconceived as abstract states. The new technology of the printing press transformed how information was disseminated, bringing texts to different social groups. Painters perfected the artifice of perspective for an increasingly commercial patronage, even as they themselves cultivated the value of their own "genius" through increasingly distinctive styles and visions. Reformers called into question 1500 years of tradition, splitting the One True Church into multiple churches. In the midst of all these changes, Europeans reached farther and farther out into a world they did not yet dominate, even as they lived uneasily under the shadow of an expansionist Islamic Mediterranean. Indeed, that wider world was inseparable from those seismic changes in the political and cultural landscape of Europe.
Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650 offers a concise discussion of these events and the impact they had upon an evolving European society. It provides a clear outline of political events and a lively exploration of developments in the social and cultural landscape. Along with traditional themes, such as Protestantism, the book examines the changing roles of European women and the effects of environmental fluctuation on the history of the continent. By looking at these years as a whole, the authors attempt to restore interconnections among events that are often lost when the time period is viewed through the double categories of "The Renaissance" and "The Reformation." Illustrated with nine detailed maps and twenty-four images, and offering chapter summaries and a chronology to aid students, this text is ideal for undergraduate courses in early modern European history.
Synopsis
Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from
that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people? The book provides a conceptual framework, empirical case analyses, and organizational proposals to resolve the paradox, be it in the US, Europe, or elsewhere. Thus, Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management
has multiple audiences. First are the key professions involved in the protection and improvement of ecosystems and in the provision and delivery of services from those ecosystems. These include ecologists (and other natural scientists such as conservation biologists, climatologists, forest
scientists, and toxicologists), engineers (as well as hydrologists, environmental engineers, civil engineers, and line operators), modeling and gaming experts, managers, planners, and power, agriculture, and recreation communities. Another audience includes university researchers in ecology,
conservation biology, engineering, the policy sciences, and resource management. Those interested in interdisciplinary approaches in these fields will also find the book especially helpful. Finally, those interested in the Everglades, the Columbia River Basin, San Francisco Bay-Delta, and the Green
Heart of western Netherlands will find new insights here, as the book provides a detailed examination of the paradox in each of these cases.
Synopsis
This book is a compact, accessible history of the continent, during a time when it did not yet dominate the world in which it was situated. The text discusses the major events of the period, and also seeks to restore interconnections lost by thinkers who divided the period into "The Renaissance" and "The Reformation." With twenty-five illustrations and nine detailed maps, this short textbook is perfect for students of European history.
Table of Contents
1. The Late Middle Ages in Eastern Europe
The Crusades
The Fall of Byzantium, 1081-1453
The Ottoman Empire, 1453-1699
Russia from the Thirteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Centuries
Summary
2. The Rise of the Nation
A World Turned Upside Down
The Emerging National Monarchies
Particularism in Germany and Italy
Summary
3. The Renaissance
A Money Economy
Printing, Thought, and Literature
Science and Religion
The Fine Arts
The Art of Daily Living
Summary
4. Exploration and Expansion
Exploration and Expansion
East by Sea to the Indies
West by Sea to the Indies
The North Atlantic Powers
Russia
The Impact of Expansion
Summary
5. The Age of Reformation
Protestant Founders: Martin Luther, 1483-1546
Protestant Founders: Zwingli, Calvin, and Others
Protestant Beliefs and Practices
The Catholic Reformation
Protestantism and the Idea of Progress
Summary
6. The Great Powers in Conflict
A Long Dure
A Complexity of Wars
The Catholic Monarchies: Spain and France
France: Toward Absolutism, 1547-1588
The Protestant States: Tudor England and the Dutch Republic
The Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years' War
Science and Religion
Summary