EUROPE IN CRISIS: 1598-1648. Geoffrey Parker, 384 pp. $5.95

EUROPE: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789. By Olwen Hufton. 398 pp. $5.95
EUROPE BETWEEN THE REVOLU- TIONS: 1815-1848. By Jacques Droz. 286 pp. $4.95 EUROPE RESHAPED: 1848- 1878. By
J. A. S. Grenville. 412 pp. $5.95
EUROPE OF THE DICTATORS: 1919-1945. By Elizabeth Wiskemann. 286 pp. $4.95 Cornell reprints, 1980
The intricacies of modern European his- tory seem to defy condensation. Yet these volumes, by British and French scholars, c...