Europe : a brief history / by George A Rothrock.

Includes index.

Contents: 9birth of the balance of power -- Man, God, and reason -- A harvesttrial -- The birth of feudal monarchy -- Merchants, money and social change -- The apogee of medieval christianity -- Challenge and conflict in later Medieval Europe -- The Hundred Years War -- The disintegration of Medieval Europe -- The Renaissance -- Religious reaction and reform -- Hapsburg hegemony -- The Scientific Revolution -- The rise of the national state -- The birth of the balance ofpower -- Man, God, and reason -- A harvest of violence -- Restoration and reaction -- Industrialization and its consequences -- The nation deified -- The new Europe -- Competition and collapse -- The retreat of liberal democracy -- The end of European hegemony.