General Reading

• J. Bergin (ed.), The Seventeenth Century (2000)
• J. Black, Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe (2003)
• T. Blanning, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 (2002)
• W. Blockmans & J. Genet (eds), The Origins of the Modern State in Europe (7 vols, 1997-2000)
• R. Bonney, The European Dynastic States 1494-1660 (1991)
• “ (ed.), The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe (1999)
• H.J. Cohn (ed.), Government in Reformation Europe (1971)
• P. Edwards, The Making of the Modern English State 1460-1660 (2001)
• T. Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan (1997)
• B. Kümin (ed.), The European World (2009), Part V
• K. MacHardy, War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622 (2002)
• R. MacKenney, Sixteenth-Century Europe (1993)
• J. Miller (ed.), Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe (1990)
• T. Munck, Seventeenth Century Europe (1990)
• G. Parker, Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe (2002)
• A. Pettegree, Europe in the Sixteenth Century (2002)
• M. Raeff, The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law (1983)
• W. Reinhard, Power Elites and State Building (1996)
• J.H. Shennan, The Origins of the Modern European State, 1450-1725 (1974)
• “ , Liberty and Order in Early Modern Europe (1986)
• A.F. Upton, Europe 1600-1789 (2001)
• H. Zmora, Monarchy, Aristocracy & the State in Europe 1300-1800 (2001)