TY - BOOK AU - Rao, B.V. TI - History of Europe (1450 - 1815) SN - 812070925x U1 - 940.2 23 PY - 1996/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sterling Publication N1 - Chapter-1: Europe in Retrospect; Chapter-2: Geographical discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Chapter-3: The renaissance in Europe; Chapter-4: Religious reformation; Chapter-5: Rise of nation-states in Europe : Tudor England; Chapter-6: Emergence of Spain as a great power; Chapter-7: Protestant turmoil in France; Chapter-8: The thirty years war; Chapter-9: France under Richelieu and Mazarin; Chapter-10: The rise of Sweden; Chapter-11: Revolutions in England; Chapter-12: Louis XVI, the grand monarch; Chapter-13: The ascendancy of Russia; Chapter-14: The rise of Prussia; Chapter-15: The rise of Ottoman Empire; Chapter-16: Industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism; Chapter-17: From bloodless revolution to American revolution; Chapter-18: The age of reason and decline of enlightened despotism in France; Chapter-19: The French revolution of 1789; Chapter-20: Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte; Chapter-21: Congress of vienna N2 - This book tells the story of how Europe emerged from its cocoon of medievalism to occupy the central stage in the world history from S. C. 1500. The period 1450-1815 in Europe history marks in many respects an important transition ER -