This book covers both European and global History from 1350 to 1650. The eight modules in the textbook offer an all-encompassing perspective on European history and a parallel understanding of world history, establishing a holistic framework of the events narrated. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the factors that led to the rise of the modern West. The textbook offers maps, tables, and illustrations to quickly comprehend and recollect significant events and their causes and consequences in Europes transformation from medieval to modern maps. The textbook covers political, economic, intellectual, and social history from 1350 to 1650. Each module carries suggested questions and exercises to achieve greater interactive learning. The textbook serves as a convenient source of information for advanced readers and upper undergraduates in history to understand the genesis of modern Europe from multiple sources, perspectives, and languages.
General Introduction I: Europe in the World 1350-1650.- General
Introduction II: The World and Europe to 1650.- Module 1The Medieval
Prelude.- Module 2The Background.- Module 3Into the Early Modern.- Module
4Stepping into a New Order.- Module 5A Society in Flux I: Religion, Law and
the State.- Module 6 A Society in Flux II: Culture, Knowledge, Power.-
Module 7Seeing the World Anew.- Module 8Exploring the World Beyond Europe.-
Conclusion.
Rila Mukherjee was a professor of History at University of Hyderabad, India. She did her doctoral dissertation at the EHESS, Paris. She specializes in global history, particularly the history of the extended Indian Ocean world, and more specifically in the networked economic and cultural histories of the Bay of Bengal realm. Historical cartography, network theory, and spatial concepts are focal to her interests. Chief Editor since 2015 of the Brill journal Asian Review of World Histories, she has held Visiting Professorships at Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Tokyo, Macau, and Uppsala, and has been a visiting scholar to Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. She has partnered international interdisciplinary projects funded by European Science Foundation; Agence Nationale de Recherche, France; Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK; the Australian Research Council.
