Table of Contents

Preface Peter the Great Reforms Russia, 1689-1725 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Taylor Stults The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Andrew P. Trout The First British Empire, 1701-1763 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Thomas Prasch The War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, 1740-1763 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Franz A. J. Szabo The Enlightenment, c. 1750 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Linda E. Mitchell The Agricultural Revolution, c. 1750 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Robert D. Cornwall The American Revolution, 1763-1783 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Rick Kennedy The Industrial Revolution, c. 1775 Introduction Interpretive Essay by David Mitch The Atlantic Slave Trade, c. 1780 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Kenneth Banks The French Revolution, 1789-1799 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Donald H. Barry Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Timeline Appendix C: Ruling Houses and Dynasties Index

About the Author

FRANK W. THACKERAY is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. He is coeditor of the Greenwood Press Events That Changed the World, Events That Changed America, and Histories of the Modern Nations series. He is also coeditor of Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy (Greenwood, 1993) and author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and the Polish Congress Kingdom, 1815-1825 (1980). He is a former Fulbright scholar to Poland.

JOHN E. FINDLING is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. He is coeditor of the Greenwood Press Events That Changed the World, Events That Changed America, and Histories of the Modern Nations series. He is author of Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (Greenwood, rev. ed. 1989) and Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: U.S.-Central American Relations (1987). He is editor of Historical Dictionary of Worlds Fairs and Expositions (1990) and coeditor of Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (Greenwood, 1996).

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"This clear and succinct resource describes major historical events and their ramifications....Better than a general encyclopedia, this will be a handy reference for serious history students."-School Library Journal