The Seventeenth Century

The seventeenth century, highly significant for the future of Europe, is fully explored by six major authors as they address, in turn, economy, society, politics, war and international relations, science, thought and culture ('The Age of Curiosity'), and Europe in the wider world. In a set of chapters covering and contrasting the European experience across the full century and the full continent, the reader is offered a lively and provocative introduction to this exciting period of history.