Table of Contents

Preface The Time of Troubles, 1598-1618 Interpretive Essay by John T. Alexander The Establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, 1603 Interpretive Essay by Louis G. Perez The Founding of Jamestown, 1607 Interpretive Essay by Rick Kennedy The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Interpretive Essay by Garrett L. McAinsh Louis XIV and the Grand Monarchy, 1643-1715 Interpretive Essay by Andrew P. Trout The Manchu Conquest, 1644 Interpretive Essay by Yu Shen The Scientific Revolution, c. 1650 Interpretive Essay by Robert K. DeKosky The Golden Age of Mogul Power, c. 1650 Interpretive Essay by John McLeod The Siege of Vienna, 1683 Interpretive Essay by David Stefancic The Glorious Revolution, 1688-1689 Interpretive Essay by William T. Walker Appendices Index

About the Author

FRANK W. THACKERAY is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast./e He is author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and the Polish Kingdom (1980) and the co-editor (with John E. Findling) of the Events That Changed the World series and the The Events That Changed America series, both published by Greenwood. Also with John E. Findling, he is co-editor of Statesmen Who Changed the World (1993). He and Findling are also series editors of the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series.

JOHN E. FINDLING is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast./eHe is the author of Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (1980-89), Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations (1987), and Chicago's Great World's Fairs (1995). With Kimberly D. Pelle, he co-edited Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 (1990) and Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (1996). With Frank W. Thackeray, he is co-editor of the Events That Changed the World series and the Events That Changed America series and also series editor of the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series.