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1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 widest sense, was exploited during the 'long eighteenth century' to buttress authority in all its forms and how politics infused culture. Individual essays explore topics ranging from the military culture of Central Europe through the political culture of Germany, France and Great Britain, music, court intrigue and diplomatic practice, religious conflict and political ideas, the role of the Enlightenment, to the very new dispensations which prevailed during and after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic watershed. The book will be essential reading for all scholars of eighteenth-century European history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Politics and culture -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Politics and culture. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Scott, H. M. (Hamish M.), 1946-
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Simms, Brendan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultures of power in Europe during the long eighteenth century. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007 9780521842273 0521842271 (OCoLC)78989077 |
| ISBN |
9780511290268 (electronic book) |
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0511290268 (electronic book) |
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0511289669 (electronic book) |
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9780511289668 (electronic book) |
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0521842271 (Cloth) |
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9780521842273 (hardback) |
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