The Age of Monarchs
Clarice Swisher
Hardcover
(Greenhaven Press, Oct. 3, 2001)
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European kings of nation-states ruled with absolute authority, which they used to establish world-wide trading companies and colonies to increase their wealth and power. Concurrently, European artists, composers, and philosophers developed new ideas and rich new forms, adding to European global influence.