17. The Grand Monarque and the Balance of Power

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18. The Dutch Republic

1. Dutch Civilization and Government
• [Primary Source The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581]
• [Primary Source Charter of the Dutch West India Company]

2. Foreign Affairs: Conflict with the English and French

19. Britain: The Civil War

• [Primary Source The English Revolution]

1. England in the Seventeenth Century
• [Primary Source James I, True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598]
• [Primary Source James I on divine right of kings] ]

2. Background to the Civil War: Parliament and the Stuart Kings
• [Primary Source Charles I : Declaration of Sports]
• [Primary Source Solemn League and Covenant]

3. The Emergence of Cromwell
• [Primary Source Charles I, Speech to Parliament on the Occasion of his Trial for Treason]
• [Primary Source Putney Debates]
• [Primary Source Hobbes, Leviathan, Chaps 13-14]

20. Britain: The Triumph of Parliament

1. The Restoration, 1660-1688: The Later Stuarts
• [Image Charles II]
• [Image James II]

2. The Revolution of 1688
• [Primary Source Declaration of Right, February 1689]
• [Primary Source English Bill of Rights, 1689]
• [Image Battle of the Boyne]
• [Primary Source Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690, selections]

21. The France of Louis XIV, 1643-1715: The Triumph of Absolutism

1. French Civilization in the Seventeenth Century

2. The Development of Absolutism in France
• [Image Louis XIV]
• [Primary Source Bossuet on kingship]

3. Government and Administration
• [Image Versailles in 17th century]
• [Primary Source Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy, 1697]
• Primary Source Duc de Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV]

4. Economic and Financial Policies: Colbert
• [Primary Source Colbert, Memorandum on Trade, 1664]

5. Religion: The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685
• [Primary Source Revocation of Edict of Nantes]

22. The Wars of Louis XIV: The Peace of Utrecht, 1713

1. Before 1700
• [Image French soldier]

2. The War of the Spanish Succession
• [Image Gibralter]

3. The Peace of Utrecht
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