TY - BOOK AU - Dunan,Marcel TI - Larousse encyclopedia of modern history: from 1500 to the present day AV - R D 209 L332 1964 U1 - 909.08 PY - 1964///] CY - New York PB - Harper & Row KW - History, Modern N1 - "Translated by Delano Ames from Histoire Universalle Larouse."; The sixteenth century. Europe and the Renaissance in the first half of the sixteenth century ; The first half of the sixteenth century outside Europe ; Europe from 1559 to 1600 ; The second half of the sixteenth century on the fringe of Europe -- The seventeenth century. The opening years of the seventeenth century : 1598-1620 ; A period of crises : 1620-60 ; The zenith of royal power ; The end of the great reigns -- The eighteenth century. The failure of the English peace ; Asia and Africa ; The Seven Years' War and benevolent despotism ; The preface to a new age -- The era of the French Revolution. The last years of the eighteenth century ; The Napoleonic epoch -- The nineteenth century. Restorations and revolutions ; Revolutions and national wars ; Towards world war ; The First World War and the failure of peace ; The Second World War -- From the World Wars to the Cold War. The postwar world ; The great changes of 1950-60 ER -