Pennington, Europe in the Seventeeth Centuty

Abstract

It has been two decades since the first edition (1970) of the highly acclaimed Seventeenth-Century Europe appeared in the "General History of Europe" series. D. H. Pennington, now Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, has produced an expanded, extensively rewritten, revised edition. The author offers new information on aspects of seventeenth-century social history, neglected topics in 1970, but does not succumb to the trendy issues of social history. The book retains the topical and narrative flavor of the earlier work. One example of the revision is dividing the original chapter on "The Thirty Years War and The Habsburg Empire" into two new chapters, "The Thirty Years War” and "Germany and the Habsburg Empire." The bibliographies that originally appeared at the beginning of each chapter are updated and placed in a separate bibliography. Redesigned maps, more appropriately located, enhance the overall quality of this new edition.