World history/WHME101/Political and military development/Rise of absolutism continued

Reading

Read chapters 8 and 9 below, pp. 281-334. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• Where did absolutism prevail in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

• How was England different?

• What is mercantilism?

• In which regions did England and France vie for trade, influence and territory?

Hutton Webster, World History, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1921, pp. 281-334.