Enlightened Absolutism

Author : H.M. Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349205923
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466905
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780 written by Franz A. J. Szabo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy (1753-1792), emerges from this study as the key figure in the development of enlightened absolutism and the guiding spirit behind the modernization of the state.

Author : Antony Lentin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightened Absolutism, 1760-1790 written by Antony Lentin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Beales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771242X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe written by Derek Beales and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Britain conquered India and much of America, the American Revolution produced the USA, and Russia expanded vastly. In the field of ideas the Scientific Revolution was consolidated and followed by the Enlightenment. Nationalism flourished, populations surged, and the Commercial and Industrial Revolutions with Western technology eclipsed the East. Few centuries have inspired such a galaxy of historians, and their groundbreaking work has been drawn upon by Derek Beales in his collection of articles and special lectures. He covers the whole European kaleidoscope, but focuses especially on Joseph II and the Hapburg monarchy, asserting that Enlightened Despotism was the emodiment of the century's revolution in ideas, politics, government and administration.

Author : Christopher Lovins
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143847363X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Chǒngjo, an Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea written by Christopher Lovins and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed analysis in English of monarchy and governance in Korea during King Chŏngjo’s reign. Were the countries of Europe the only ones that were “early modern”? Was Asia’s early modernity cut short by colonialism? Scholars examining early modern Eurasia have not yet fully explored the relationships between absolute rule and political modernization in the highly contested early modern world. Using a comparative perspective that places Chŏngjo, king of Korea from 1776 to 1800, in context with other Korean kings and with contemporary Chinese and European rulers, Christopher Lovins examines the shifting balance of power in Korea in favor of the crown at the expense of the aristocracy during the early modern period. This book is the first to analyze in English the recently discovered collection of 297 private letters written by Chŏngjo himself. These letters were a vital channel of communication outside of official court historians’ scrutiny, since private meetings between the king and his ministers were forbidden by custom. Royal politics played out in an arena of subtle communication, with court officials trying to read the king’s unstated, elliptically hinted at intentions and the king trying to suggest what he wanted done while maintaining plausible deniability. Through close analysis of both official records and private letters, including Chŏngjo’s “secret letters,” Lovins shows that, in contrast to previous assumptions, the late eighteenth-century Korean monarchs were not weak and ineffective but instead were in the process of building an absolutist polity.

Author : Henry E. Strakosch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism written by Henry E. Strakosch and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134748051
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolutism in Central Europe written by Peter Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 200 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.

Author : Cesare Cuttica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732224X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 320 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.

Author : Éva H. Balázs
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9789639116030
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765-1800 written by Éva H. Balázs and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva H. Balazs, one of the foremost living authorities on eighteenth century Central Europe, examines a crucial period in the co-existence of the Austrian hereditary provinces and Hungary. In a Europe torn by wars and revolutions, in the last third of the eighteenth century, political, economic and personal factors interwined to determine the fortunes of the Austrian rulers and the subjects of the Hungarian crown who collaborated with them in a subordinated status. Rejecting commonplaces of the centre-periphery approach, the author argues that the Habsburg monarchy was a 'centre' whose reforms in this period inspired all subsequent movements for reform in Eastern and Central Europe. Professor Balazs's skill in combining great wealth of archival material -- not only from Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, but (unprecedented in this field) also from France, gives the reader a near-contemporary proximity to the figures and developments discussed.

Author : John G. Gagliardo
Publisher : New York : Crowell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightened Despotism written by John G. Gagliardo and published by New York : Crowell. This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief historical survey of governmental, economic and cultural reforms initiated by so-called Enlightened monarchs of Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century.