Download or read book Enlightened Absolutism written by H.M. Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1990-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe written by Cesare Cuttica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An English Absolutism written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New appreciations in history no. 30.
Download or read book Absolutism in Central Europe written by Peter Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lineages of the Absolutist State written by Perry Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why didn't Italy develop into an Absolutist state in the same, indigenous way as the other dominant Western countries, namely Spain, France and England? On the other hand, how did Eastern European countries develop into Absolutist states similar to those of the West, when their social conditions diverged so drastically? Reflecting on examples in Islamic and East Asian history, as well as the Ottoman Empire, Anderson concludes by elucidating the particular role of European development within universal history.
Download or read book The Dream of Absolutism written by Hall Bjørnstad and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. The problem with absolutism ; Beyond mere propaganda ; Approaching absolutism differently: royal glory and royal exemplarity ; The dream of absolutism -- The grammar of absolutism. The dream of a book like no other ; Taking Louis XIV's Mémoires seriously ; Absolutism, explained to a child: "The first and most important part of our entire politics" ; The utility of "These Mémoires" ; The paradoxes of absolutist exemplarity ; Conclusion: "So many ghastly examples" -- Mirrors of absolutism. Introduction: Our body in this space ; An age of mirrors ; A gallery celebrating greatness ; Making the king see what he felt ; A mirror for one ; In lieu of conclusion: Mirrors for a future without a past -- Absolutist absurdities. Exhibit A: The royal historiographer and the unparalleled greatness of Louis XIV ; Exhibit B: Absolutism from the cabinet of fairies to the cabinet of the king ; Conclusion: Seven theses on the dream of absolutism.
Download or read book Absolutism in Seventeenth century Europe written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Absolutism and Ruling Class written by John P. LeDonne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive examination of the Russian ruling elite and its political institutions during an important period of state building, from the emergence of Russia on the stage of world politics around 1700 to the consolidation of its position after the victory over Napoleon. Instead of focusing on the great rulers of the period--Peter, Catherine, and Alexander--the work examines the nobility which alone could make their power effective. LeDonne not only gives a full chronological account of the development of bureaucratic, military, economic, and political institutions in Russia during this period, but also skillfully analyzes the ways in which local agencies and the ruling class exercised control and shared power with the absolute monarchs.
Download or read book The Myth of Absolutism written by Nicholas Henshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book French Absolutism the Crucial Phase written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism 1660 1697 written by Anthony F. Upton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.
Download or read book Piety and Politics written by Mary Fulbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics in early modern Europe.
Download or read book CM BDC Absolutism in Practice Louis XIV Versailles and the Art of Personal Kingship written by Bedford/St. Martin's and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document collection explores how Louis XIV sought to embody absolutism through his personal rule by examining the theory behind absolutism, Louis's own writings on kingship, and the observations of eyewitnesses at his court, shedding light on traditions of royal government in Europe since the Middle Ages. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.
Download or read book The Age of Absolutism 1648 1775 written by Maurice Ashley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated the impact of diverse movements and various individuals on European history and on development in the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere.
Download or read book From Habsburg Neo absolutism to the Compromise 1849 1867 written by Ágnes Deák and published by East European Monographs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I: Antecedents and General Parameters; 1. The Historical Challenges of 1848-1849 in the Habsburg Empire; 2. The Governmental Response to the Challenges. Neo-Absolutism and Constitutional Centralization; 3. The Shaping of a Policy for Hungary; 4. Punishment and Reward; 5. The Population of Hungary in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; II: The Government of Hungary in the Era of Neo-Absolutism; 1. Economic Policy: Caught between Liberalization and Restriction; 2. Creating a New World. The Construction of the State Apparatus; 3. "Obedient Rebels" or Passive Resistors? The Civil Servants in Hungary; 4. Rational Mediation or Germanization? Official Language Use; 5. Discontented Supporters and Defiant Opponents, The Churches and the Government; 6. Modernization and/or "Germanization"? Public Education; 7. Culture and Civic Organizing; 8. Political Programs in Hungary. The Alternatives to Nee-Absolutism; Ill: The Paths to Political Consolidation; 1. The Hesitant Search for a Solution, 1859-1860; 2. The Hungarian Political Elite at the Crossroads: The October Diploma and What Came Next; 3. "We Can Wait": The Years of the Schmerling Provisorium; 4. The Compromise Takes Shape.
Download or read book Science and the State written by John Gascoigne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.
Download or read book Absolutism and Enlightenment 1660 1789 written by Ronald Walter Harris and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
