Europe in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries

These books cover the essentials of the history of Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

• The Industrial Revolution by T. S. Ashton. The story of the emergence of industrial civilization. (more:
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• The Enlightenment by Peter Gay. (more:
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• Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickson White.
• The Law by Frederic Bastiat.

Advanced and Supplementary Resources

• The Sinews of Power by John Brewer.
• The Mind of John Locke by Ian Harris.
• A Monarchy Transformed, Britain, 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky.
• The Long Eighteenth Century by Frank O'Gorman.
• English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter.
• The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman by Caroline Robbins. Study of the political thought of British thinkers like John Locke and Algernon Sydney which the American Patriots inherited and which (Bailyn has shown) guided them in their opposition to Britain. (out-of-print, see sources.)
• Reasoned Freedom, John Locke and Enlightenment by Peter A. Schouls. (out-of-print, see sources.)
• Natural Rights and the New Republicanism by Michael B. Zuckert.