Cultures of power in Europe during the long eighteenth century /

This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how 'culture', defined in the wide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scott, H. M. (Hamish M.), 1946-, Simms, Brendan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1700-1799
Politics and culture > Europe > History > 18th century.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History > 18th century.
Politique et culture > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Politics and culture
Power (Social sciences)
Europe > Politics and government > 18th century.
Europe > History > 18th century.
Europe > Politique et gouvernement > 18e siècle.
Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century / James J. Sheehan
  • When culture meets power: the Prussian coronation of 1701 / Christopher Clark
  • Military culture in the Reich, c. 1680-1806 / Peter H. Wilson
  • Diplomatic culture in old regime Europe / Hamish Scott
  • Early eighteenth-century Britain as a confessional state / Andrew C. Thompson
  • 'Ministers of Europe': British strategic culture, 1714-1760 / Brendan Simms
  • Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-1734 / James Van Horn Melton
  • The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas / Joachim Whaley
  • Culture and Bürgerlichkeit in eighteenth-century Germany / Maiken Umbach
  • The politics of language and the languages of politics: Latin and the vernaculars in eighteenth-century Hungary / R.J.W. Evans
  • 'Silence, respect obedience': political culture in Louis XV's France / Julian Swann
  • Joseph II, petitions and the public sphere / Derek Beales
  • The court nobility and the origins of the French Revolution / Munro Price
  • The French Revolution and the abolition of nobility / William Doyle
  • Foreign policy and political culture in later eighteenth-century France / Gary Savage
  • Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte / Mark Berry
  • Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture, c. 1789-1848 / Emma L. Winter.

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