The First Crisis The End Of The Old Regime In Europe 1768 1776

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0691055645

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The First Crisis: The end of the old regime in Europe, 1768-1776 by Franco Venturi Pdf

"Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. R. Burr Litchfield now makes available in English translation the third volume of Settecento Riformatore and first part of The End of the Old Regime in Europe. Here the reader will discover the lively world of Italian journalists, polemicists, chroniclers, and commentators, who followed with intelligence and growing awareness the great developments of their age, from the Greek uprising of 1770, the Pugachev revolt in Russia and unrest of peasants in Bohemia, through the first partition of Poland, the reactions of Struensee in Denmark and Gustavus III in Sweden, constitutional troubles in Geneva, the crisis of reform in France with the dismissal of Turgot, and events in England and America at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Thus began the outer circle of revolutions that after another two decades would find their epicenter in Paris in 1789." -- Publishers description.

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861903

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The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part I by Franco Venturi Pdf

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Princeton University Press has already published R. Burr Litchfield's English translation of the third volume of Settecento Riformatore, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776: The First Crisis. Now the story continues with The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, translated from Volume IV of Venturi's work. The earlier volume dealt with European and Italian public opinion through the important decade that ended with the American Declaration of Independence. Part I of this new double volume traces the development of politics and opinion in the final crisis of the Old Regime in the great states of Western Europe--Great Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal. The second part extends the narrative to Eastern Europe. It discusses the growing movement of republican patriotism and the attempt to reform the Hapsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Empires. As previously, this historical drama is viewed through Italian publishing and journalism that observed a cosmopolitan world from Turin, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples and that intelligently interpreted it. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634096740

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The End of the Old Regime in Europe by Franco Venturi Pdf

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0691031576

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The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789: Republican patriotism and the empires of the East by Franco Venturi Pdf

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : H. M. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052179269X

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The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 by H. M. Scott Pdf

This book shows how the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia.

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861910

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The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part II by Franco Venturi Pdf

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748986395

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The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776 by Franco Venturi Pdf

Author : Peter Krüger,Paul W. Schroeder (Eds.), in cooperation with Katja Wüstenbecker
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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"The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848" by Peter Krüger,Paul W. Schroeder (Eds.), in cooperation with Katja Wüstenbecker Pdf

This book takes up a question raised about the nature of the European international system in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries by Paul W. Schroeder's pathbreaking and controversial work, "The Transformation of European Politics, 1763 - 1848" (1994). Schroeder's central claim was that the European states system underwent a fundamental transformation in the revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Vienna eras from a system of competitive, conflictual power politics based purely on a shifting balance of power to a more consensual, stable, and peaceful set of relations based on legality, acknowledged rights and obligations, and shared norms. The contributors to this volume, while examining this claim, primarily extend the debate to the entire history of European and world international politics from the early seventeenth century to the present. If this transformation was real, they ask, was it only a temporary episode, or does it represent an example of other transformations or structural changes in international politics over the centuries down to the present day, and a possible model for change in the future?

Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226579727

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Tosca's Rome by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Pdf

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal

Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317902171

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The Baltic World 1772-1993 by David Kirby Pdf

This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span; expert mingling of political, social and economic history; and Dr Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads of his account from tangling as he weaves them into the broad regional picture that is his main concern. Here he tackles the contrasting experiences of Europe's northern periphery -- affluence and democracy in the north, stagnation and authoritarianism in the south -- from the French Revolution to the collapse of the USSR and beyond. This is a masterly study of a region that is far from peripheral politically to the post-Soviet world.

Author : J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574986

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The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 by J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer Pdf

A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.

Author : Michel Delon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135960056

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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Michel Delon Pdf

This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Author : Sergio Fabbrini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134315802

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Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States by Sergio Fabbrini Pdf

The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states. Yet, by and large, the EU and the US tend to be analyzed more as potential geopolitical and economic rivals or allies than compared as institutional peers. By bringing together some of the most influential political scientists and historians to compare the European and American experiences of federalism, Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States explores the future development, and seeks a better understanding, of a post-national European Union democracy. This book consists of three core parts: how the EU has developed and the implications of the process of European federalization the features of American federalism, tracing the intellectual debate that led to the approval of the American federal constitution in 1787 the future of European Union. This is essential reading for all students of European politics, democracy and international relations.

Author : Alexandra Lianeri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500845

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The Western Time of Ancient History by Alexandra Lianeri Pdf

This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it articulates a genealogical problematic of what history is and a more strictly focused reappraisal of Greek and Roman historical thought. Ancient ideas of history have played a key role in modern debates about history writing, from Kant through Hegel to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and from Friedrich Creuzer through George Grote and Theodor Mommsen to Momigliano and Moses Finley; yet scholarship has paid little attention to the theoretical implications of the reception of these ideas. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of relevant topics and approaches and boast distinguished authors from across Europe in the fields of classics, ancient and modern history and the theory of historiography.

Author : Peter Thompson,Peter S. Onuf
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933498

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State and Citizen by Peter Thompson,Peter S. Onuf Pdf

Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume's distinguished contributors cast new light on the shift from subjecthood to citizenship during the American Revolution by showing that the federal state played a much greater part than is commonly supposed. Going beyond master narratives--celebratory or revisionist--that center on founding principles, the contributors argue that geopolitical realities and the federal state were at the center of early American political development. The volume's editors, Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, bring together political science and historical methodologies to demonstrate that citizenship was a political as well as a legal concept. The American state, this collection argues, was formed and evolved in a more dialectical relationship between citizens and government authority than is generally acknowledged. Suggesting points of comparison between an American narrative of state development--previously thought to be exceptional--and those of Europe and Latin America, the contributors break fresh ground by investigating citizenship in its historical context rather than by reference only to its capacity to confer privileges.