This Narrative has been developed as part of the project Teaching European History in the 21st Century (TEH21) [https://teh21.sites.uu.nl/], which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Together with the narratives on “Demographic Changes”, “Household and Family”, and “Inequalities”, it is part of the second unit of the handbook "The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000" [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323]. This handbook is one of the outputs of the TEH21 project. As a whole, the unit focuses on the concept of "Societies".
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Cover image: Callot, Jacques. “Les bohémiens en marche: l'arrière-garde.” Metmuseum, ca. 1592-1635.