The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, the Old Regime, 1713-1763

This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521045452
• ISBN13: 9780521045452
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 646 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"