Modern Europe By CARLTON J. H. HAYES Associate Professor of History in Columbia University A timely, accurate and brilliantly written history of modern Europe from 1500 to the present war, and a really adequate text-book for a college course in Modern European History. Recent happenings, or at least those events of the past which have had a direct bearing upon the present, are given particular emphasis. Beginning with the sixteenth century, the story of the civilization of Modern Europe is carried down the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries with constant crescendo. As his point of departure the author has chosen the world discoveries, the mighty commercial expansion, and the religious turmoil of Europe in the sixteenth century, for with that date modern world politics and the steady growth of nationalism may be said to begin, and the great central theme of modern history emerges - the rise of the bourgeoisie. Not only has the author devoted several admirable chapters to social and economic developments, but he has vitalized every part of the narrative by injecting some social or economic explanation of the chief political facts. He has welded political and social history into a real synthesis. The critical bibliographies are unusually suggestive. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York |