Absolutism In Central Europe

Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134748068

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Absolutism in Central Europe by Peter Wilson Pdf

Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety of disciplines have defined and explained political development across what was formerly known as the 'age of absolutism'. It assesses whether the term still has utility as a tool of analysis and it explores the wider ramifications of the process of state-formation from the experience of central Europe from the early seventeenth century to the start of the nineteenth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Despotism
ISBN : 0203750039

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Absolutism in Central Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Despotism
ISBN : UOM:39015019431355

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Absolutism in Seventeenth-century Europe by John Miller Pdf

Annotation Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties. This was justified by a theory stressing the monarchs absolute power and his duty to place the good of his state before particular interests. The essays of this volume analyse this process in states at very different stages of economic and political development and assess the great gulf that often existed between the monarchs power in theory and in practice.

Author : Orest Subtelny
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773593947

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Domination of Eastern Europe by Orest Subtelny Pdf

Author : Nicholas Henshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317899532

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The Myth of Absolutism by Nicholas Henshall Pdf

Conventionally, ``absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.

Author : Max Beloff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317816652

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The Age of Absolutism (Routledge Revivals) by Max Beloff Pdf

The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, but covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period of European history. The pinnacle of absolute monarchy is cemented in Louis XIV’s France, eventually giving way to reform and revolution; the Russian Empire becomes an important player on the Western stage under Peter I and Catherine the Great; America achieves independence; and, the ideas of the Enlightenment begin to change the intellectual and religious landscape. Max Beloff analyses the period in fascinating detail in a now reissued title that will be of particular interest to students of Early Modern History, Politics and European diplomacy.

Author : James van Horn Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521528569

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Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by James van Horn Melton Pdf

This 1988 book is a study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.

Author : Selma Stern
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447495642

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The Court Jew - A Contribution To The History Of The Period Of Absolutism In Central Europe by Selma Stern Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322245

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Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe by Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess Pdf

The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

Author : Eva Balazs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1858660777

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Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765-1800 by Eva Balazs Pdf

In this study, va Balzs, one of the foremost living authorities on eighteenth-century Central Europe, examines a crucial period in the coexistence of the Austrian hereditary provinces and Hungary. In a Europe torn by wars and revolutions, both partners in this ambivalent relationship are shown to have collaborated in bringing about those reforms in the Habsburg monarchy that later inspired movements for reform around East-Central Europe. A great wealth of hitherto unexplored archival material from several countries is distilled into a uniquely lively picture of the age.

Author : Perry Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002521263

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Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson Pdf

It begins with an enquiry into the reasons why the divergent social conditions in the more backward half of the continent should have produced political forms apparently similar to those of the more advanced West. The peculiarities, as well as affinities, of Eastern Absolutism as a distinct type of royal state, are examined. The variegated monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia are surveyed, and the lessons asked of the counter-example of Poland. Finally, the structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is taken as an external gauge by which the singularity of Absolutism as a European phenomenon is assessed. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State together into a single argument -- within their common limits --

Author : Max Beloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Despotism
ISBN : UCAL:B4378928

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The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1815 by Max Beloff Pdf

Author : Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451095

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Diversity and Dissent by Howard Louthan,Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo Pdf

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199597260

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Cultures and power by Hamish M. Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume II engages with philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment, and examines the military and political developments within and beyond the boundaries of Europe.

Author : H.M. Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349205929

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Enlightened Absolutism by H.M. Scott Pdf

Each book in this series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter. Each volume, devoted to a central topic or theme, contains specially comisssioned essays from scholars in the relevant field. These provide an assessment of a particular aspect, pointing out areas of development and controversy and indicating where conclusions can be drawn or where further work is necessary, while an editorial introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole. In this text the contributors assess reform and reformers in late 18th century Europe, covering such topics as Catherine the Great, the Danish reformers, the Habsburg Monarchy and events in Spain and Italy.