History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 7: The Struggle for Wealth and Empire

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

XXVIII. Elite and Popular Cultures

• [Image English gentry family]
• [Image English farm family]
• [Image English poor family]
• [Image William Hogarth, The Fishing Party]
• [Image The Diner's End]
• [Image Thomas Rowlandson, The Assembly Room at Bath]
• [Image Pierre Bergeret, Dawdlers of the Rue du Coq]
• [Image Masquerade]
• [Image William Hogarth, The Cockpit]
• [Primary Text] Russian Woodcut]
• [Primary Source Potatoes]
• [Primary Source Salon Life]
• [Image Drinking and Drunkenness]
• [Image Dutch Tavern]
• [Image Smoking Tobacco]
• [Primary Source English Coffee-Houses]
• [Image Abandonment of children]
• [Image Inside Debtors' Prison, London]
• [Primary Source Nonconformists: Baptist Confession of faith, 1689]
• [Primary Source John Woolman, Journal]
• [Image Hogarth, Visit to a Quack Doctor]
• [Image Street Congestion]
• [Image Riots]
• [Image William Hogarth, Laughing Audience]
• [Image Dancing: William Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty, Plate II]
• [Image The Sorceress]
• [Image Carnival]
• [Image Street theatre: Punch & Judy]
• [Image William Hogarth, Southwark Fair, 1733]

XXIX. The Global Economy of the Eighteenth Century

1. Commerce and Industry in the Eighteenth Century
• [Image Broom Seller in 18th-century Paris]
• [Image Agriculture in 18th-century France]
• [Map London in Reign of Queen Anne]
• [Image Panorama of London in 1792]
• [Map Paris in 1738]
• [Image William Hogarth, Apprentices at their Looms]

2. The World Economy: The Dutch, British, and French
• [Image East India House, London]
• [Primary Source Daniel Defoe, The Complete English Tradesman]

3. Asia, America, and Africa in the Global Economy
• [Primary Source Poem by Giovambatista Roberti]
• [Primary Source Kidnapped into Slavery]
• [Primary Source Treatment of Slaves in West Indies,]

4. The Wealth of Western Europe: Social Consequences
• [Virtual Tour] Harewood House]
• [Image Georgian family at home]
• [Image Chippendale furniture]
• [Image William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract]
• [Image Thomas Pitt]

XXX. Western Europe after Utrecht, 1713-1740

• [Image Philip V]
• [Image John Law]

1. France and Britain after 1713
• [Image Cardinal Fleury]
• [Image Robert Walpole]
• [Image Procureur général of the Parlement of Paris]
• [Image House of Lords]
• [Image House of Commons]
• [Image Queen Anne]
• [Image George I]
• [Primary Source Act of Settlement of 1701]
• [Image "James III"]
• [Primary Source The Fifteen: The Declaration of the Earl of Mar]
• [Primary Source After Culloden]
• [Image Bonnie Prince Charlie]

1. The "Bubbles"
• [Image John Law]
• [Image Seal of Compagnie d'Occident]

2. Fleury in France; Walpole in England

XXXI. The Great War of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: The Peace of Paris, 1763

• [Primary Source The Louisburg Expedition, 1745]
• [Primary Source Braddock's Defeat, 1755]

1. Eighteenth-Century Warfare
• [Primary Source Frederick the Great's Instructions for His Officers]
• [Primary Source Standing Orders for Roberts' Rangers, 1759]

2. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748
• [Image Frederick II, the "Great"]
• [Primary Source Description of the Empress Maria Theresa]

3. The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763: In Europe and America
• [Image William Pitt]
• [Primary Source Battle of Minden, 1759]
• [Primary Source The Capture of Quebec, 1759]

4. The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763: In India
• [Image Taj Mahal]
• [Image Aurungzeb]
• [Image Sepoy]
• [Primary Source Robert Clive on the Battles of Calcutta and Plassey]

4. The Peace Settlement of 1763
• [Primary Source Treaty of Paris]