XVII. The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power

1. [Image Image]

1. [Map Map]

XVIII. The Dutch Republic

1. Dutch Civilization and Government
1. [Image Rembrandt van Rijn. Sampling Officials of the Drapers' Guild, 1662]
2. [Primary Source Anna Maria van Schurman]
3. [Image Anna Maria van Schurman]
4. [Primary Source The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581]
5. [Primary Source William Temple: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands]
6. [Image] 17th century Dutch man of war]
7. [Primary Source Charter of the Dutch West India Company]
8. [Image Amsterdam headquarters of Dutch East India Company]

2. Foreign Affairs: Conflict with the English and French
1. [Secondary Discussion Anglo-Dutch Wars]
2. [Image Dutch soldier]

XIX. Britain: The Puritan Revolution

1. [Primary Source The English Revolution]

1. England in the Seventeenth Century
1. [Image ] James I]
2. [Primary Source James I, True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598]
3. [Primary Source James I on divine right of kings] ]
4. [Image John Milton ]

2. Background to the Civil War: Parliament and the Stuart Kings
1. [Image Charles I]
2. [Image William Laud]
3. [Primary Source Petition of Right, 1628]
4. [Primary Source Charles I : Declaration of Sports]
5. [Image A Cavalier]
6. [Primary Source Solemn League and Covenant]

3. The Emergence of Cromwell
1. [Primary Source Nehemiah Wharton, Parliamentarian Army on the March]
2. [Primary Source Charles I, Speech to Parliament on the Occasion of his Trial for Treason]
3. [Image Charles I beheaded]
4. [Secondary Discussion New Model Army]
5. [Image Sir Thomas Fairfax]
6. [Primary Source Statement of the Levellers, 1649]
7. [Web site Cromwell]
8. [Primary Source Putney Debates]
9. [Primary Source Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653]
10. [Image Cromwell portrait]
11. [Primary Source Hobbes, Leviathan, Chaps 13-14]
12. [Image Thomas Hobbes ]

XX. Britain: The Triumph of Parliament

1. The Restoration, 1660-1688: The Later Stuarts
1. [Image Charles II]
2. [Image James II]
3. [Image Great Fire of London]

2. The Revolution of 1688
1. [Image William III & Mary II]
2. [Image Anne]
3. [Primary Source Declaration of Right, February 1689]
4. [Primary Source William III, Address to Parliament on the French Question, 1701]
5. [Primary Source English Bill of Rights, 1689]
6. [Primary Source Battle of the Boyne]
7. [Image Battle of the Boyne]
8. [Primary Source Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690, selections]
9. [Image John Locke]

XXI. The France of Louis XIV, 1643-1715: The Triumph of Absolutism

1. French Civilization in the Seventeenth Century
1. [Image A grand seigneur]

2. The Development of Absolutism in France
1. [Image Louis XIV]
2. [Image The Fronde]
3. [Image Mazarin]
4. [Primary Source Bossuet on kingship]
5. [Image Bossuet]

3. Government and Administration
1. [Image Versailles in 17th century]
2. [Image Versailles today]
3. [Primary Source Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697]
4. [Primary Source Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697]
5. Primary Source Duc de Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV]

4. Economic and Financial Policies: Colbert
1. [Image Jean-Baptiste Colbert]
2. [Primary Source Colbert, Memorandum on Trade, 1664]

5. Religion: The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685
1. [Primary Source Revocation of Edict of Nantes]
2. [Secondary Discussion Jansenism]

XXII. The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of Utrecht, 1713

1. Before 1700
1. [Image French soldier]

2. The War of the Spanish Succession
1. [Secondary Discussion War of Spanish Succession]
2. [Image Gibralter]

3. The Peace of Utrecht
1. [Secondary Discussion Treaty of Utrecht]
2. [Map Map]