These themes are woven throughout the text and reflected in the cover illustration for the volume, Isaac Claesz van Swanenburgh's The Spinning, Reeling, Warping and Weaving of Wool (1602), which depicts women, children, and men spinning and weaving in the foreground while offering a glimpse of the public square in the background. Scholars familiar with Merry Wiesner-Hanks's work will not be surprised to learn that the strength of the work lies in the areas of social history, gender studies, and history of sexuality. As an introductory survey of European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, it admirably synthesizes an immense array of disparate themes and approaches while maintaining reader attention. According to Cambridge University Press's Web site, "this accessible and engaging textbook" is targeted toward undergraduates at the second year and above and is intended for use in courses with names such as "Early Modern Europe" or "Renaissance and Reformation Europe." Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 is the second of four volumes in the Cambridge History of Europe series.
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