The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 - First Ed. [PDF/scanned; non-OCR]

THE FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE, 1460-1559, 1st Ed., W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 182.

Eugene F. Rice, Jr., William R. Shepard Professor of History at Columbia University (as of 1994).

This compact synthesis of Europe's Renaissance and Reformation periods thematically traces the transition from the medieval to the modern, observing throughout "the intricate counterpoint of the tradition and innovation, catastrophe and promise." The major themes of the book include technological breakthroughs and their social and economic consequences, the connections between the discovery of new lands and the recovery of ancient learning, the economic expansion of Europe, humanist culture, the formation of the early modern state, and reform and revolution in the Church.