Download or read book Joseph II written by T C W Blanning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the "Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. Professor Blanning's brilliant short study, based on extensive archival research, offers a history of the Habsburg monarchy in the eighteenth century, as well as a revaluation of the emperor's complex personality and his ill-fated reform programme.
Download or read book Joseph II Volume 2 Against the World 1780 1790 written by Derek Edward Dawson Beales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II describes the critical period when he was sole ruler of the Austrian monarchy. Explaining his motivation and showing how his ideas developed, Derek Beales reveals that Joseph left an ineffaceable mark on all his lands.
Download or read book Joseph II written by Walter W. Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that never has a monarch so narrowly missed "greatness" as did the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. An idealistic, sincere, and hardworking monarch whose ultilitarian bent, humanitarian instincts, and ambitious programs of reform in every area of public concern have prompted historians to term him an "enlightened despot," "revolutionary Emperor," "philosopher on a throne," and a ruler ahead of his time, Joseph has also been condemned for being insensitive to the phobias and follies of his subjects, essentially unrealistic, almost utopian, in establishing his goals, and dogmatic and overly precipitous in trying to achieve them. Efforts to analyze and explain the actions of this complex and controversial personality have involved a number of savants in investigations of "Josephinism" (or as I prefer to call it, "Josephism"), dealing in great detail with the motiva tions, substance, and influence of his innovations. The roots of Josephism run deep, but can be observed emerging here and there from the intellectual and political soil that nourished them, before joining the central trunk of the system formulated during the latter years of Maria Theresa's reign to grow to an ephemeral and stunted maturity under Joseph II.
Download or read book Joseph II Volume 1 In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741 1780 written by Derek Beales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the claustrophobic atmosphere, in which Joseph was trained to rule, and his attempts after 1765 as co-regent with his formidable mother.
Download or read book Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism written by T. C. W. Blanning and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides studies with supporting documents of important topics in History. The books provide an analysis of the selected problem, a critical narrative of the main developments and an assessment putting the topic into perspective. Each book features a full collection of original documentary material, which is introduced so that it can be used independently of the text, although the text and the documents are carefully cross-referenced. There is also a very full and up-to-date reading list in each book, listing relevant books and articles that should be obtainable by students.
Download or read book The Limits of Enlightenment written by Paul P. Bernard and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph II And His Court written by Luise MüHlbach and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He turned and looked at her with a benevolent smile. "Come hither, my child," said he. "You would speak with the emperor. I am he."The girl uttered a stifled cry, and falling on her knees, she hid her death-like face in her hands. For she had recognized her unknown protector. Yes, this noble man, who had proffered help and promised protection, this was the emperor, and to his face she had called him miser and tyrant!-from "Chapter XXXV: The Disguise Removed"In the constrained culture of 19th-century Europe, Luise M hlbach was thwarted in her desire to become a historian, so instead she wrote historical novels in her native German-more than 100 of them, most of which were bestsellers in Europe and many of which were translated into English, with great success.This 1865 novel, set among the intrigue of the court of Austrian emperor Joseph II, is a wonderful example of German literary realism, a movement to which M hlbach was an important contributor, though one frequently overlooked today. And it is a shining model of the fierce feminism M hlbach evinced in her life as well as her fiction-Empress Maria Theresa is a potent presence here, a beautifully realized womanly force.With deftly realized characters-male and female-and page-turning plots, M hlbach's stirring historical novels are ready to find a new readership today.Luise M hlbach was the pseudonym of German author LUISE MUHLBACH (1814-1873). Among her many works of historical fiction are A Conspiracy of the Carbonari, The Daughter of an Empress, Henry VIII and His Court, Marie Antoinette and Her Son, and Napoleon and Blucher.
Download or read book Joseph II Volume 1 In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741 1780 written by Derek Beales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the claustrophobic atmosphere, in which Joseph was trained to rule, and his attempts after 1765 as co-regent with his formidable mother.
Download or read book Joseph II written by James Franck Bright and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph II written by Paul P. Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joseph II written by Walter W. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that never has a monarch so narrowly missed "greatness" as did the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. An idealistic, sincere, and hardworking monarch whose ultilitarian bent, humanitarian instincts, and ambitious programs of reform in every area of public concern have prompted historians to term him an "enlightened despot," "revolutionary Emperor," "philosopher on a throne," and a ruler ahead of his time, Joseph has also been condemned for being insensitive to the phobias and follies of his subjects, essentially unrealistic, almost utopian, in establishing his goals, and dogmatic and overly precipitous in trying to achieve them. Efforts to analyze and explain the actions of this complex and controversial personality have involved a number of savants in investigations of "Josephinism" (or as I prefer to call it, "Josephism"), dealing in great detail with the motiva tions, substance, and influence of his innovations. The roots of Josephism run deep, but can be observed emerging here and there from the intellectual and political soil that nourished them, before joining the central trunk of the system formulated during the latter years of Maria Theresa's reign to grow to an ephemeral and stunted maturity under Joseph II.
Download or read book The Revolutionary Emperor written by Saul Kussiel Padover and published by London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. This book was released on 1967 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Policy of the Emperor Joseph II in Regard to Religious Toleration written by John Hamilton Blair and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph Ii written by James Franck Bright and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI Joseph's Reforms 1780-1790 The death of Maria Theresa placed on the throne of Austria, with undivided power, one of the most remarkable personalities of the time. An emperor at the age of twenty-five, it was impossible that Joseph should escape some of the faults of a spoilt child. He was frequently self-willed and arbitrary; his utterances were often hasty, petulant, and bitter. But it was not the self-will of vanity, nor the petulance of weakness; behind the one lay a well-grounded self-confidence, behind the other a strong will which he was capable of imposing upon all with whom he had to do, and to which even the great ability of Kaunitz had to bend. Again and again we find the minister withdrawing his opposition to his master's wishes, and directing his energies to carry them out. Perhaps the most marked characteristics of his mind were his detestation of all inferior work, and his extreme intolerance of evils which he thought might be avoided. Gifted with an unequalled capacity for work, with which no fatigue or danger was allowed to interfere, the perfunctory performance of duties, which is habitual with most men, and which was the besetting sin of the Austrian bureaucracy, excited his bitter scorn. His singular versatility and rapidity of invention outran the wits of his ministers, and left him in the solitude of genius to carry out the constant succession of reforms which issued from his fertile brain. Such gifts do not conduce to happiness; but when connected, as they were in Joseph, with an intellectual brilliancy and charm which rendered him when he pleased the most attractive person in any company in which he mixed, they seemed to point him out for a great and successful monarch. His domestic life still further...
