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The Making of Modern Europe: War, Crisis, and the Rise of Powers by MIKE FENG ZHENG
The Making of Modern Europe: War, Crisis, and the Rise of Powers by MIKE FENG ZHENG
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War, crisis, and rivalry forged modern Europe.
From the collapse of Rome to the Black Death, from the Hundred Years’ War to the Thirty Years’ War, this sweeping history shows how conflict and catastrophe—rather than peace—drove innovation, state formation, and the rise of competing powers across the continent.
The Making of Modern Europe: War, Crisis, and the Rise of Powers traces how fragmented kingdoms and city-states hardened into nation-states; how gunpowder, fortifications, navies, and taxation transformed the military and the state; how diplomacy and the balance of power emerged; and how Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution reshaped ideas, religion, and technology. The result is a clear, integrative narrative of Europe’s rise—told through wars, plagues, ideas, and institutions.
Inside you’ll find:
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The Black Death and its economic shocks—labor, wages, and social unrest.
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The Hundred Years’ War and the birth of fiscal-military states in England and France.
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Habsburg–Valois rivalry, imperial ambitions, and the balance of power.
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The Thirty Years’ War, confessional conflict, and the diplomacy that followed.
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The gunpowder revolution, fortresses, professional armies, fleets, and logistics.
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Renaissance learning, the Reformation, printing, and the Scientific Revolution.
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Statecraft, geopolitics, trade, finance, and the making of the modern nation-state.
Meticulously researched and accessibly written, this 150,000+ word (600+ page) volume offers a comprehensive, event-rich account for readers of European history, military history, diplomacy, and the history of ideas—explaining not just what happened, but why Europe became the engine of the modern world.
- Publisher : Independently published
- Publication date : August 28, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 522 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8262687367
- Item Weight : 1.53 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.18 x 9 inches
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