Summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations, and discussion questions illuminate the narrative and support the student.

Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history.

Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skillfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional, and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious, and cultural history of the period.