Author: Walter W. Davis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401192413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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.
Joseph II
Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Enlightened Absolutism
Author: H.M. Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349205923
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349205923
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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.
Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797
Author: Michael Hochedlinger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy. Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna’s military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy. Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna’s military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert Wodrow
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Lotteries in Europe
Author: Bruno Bernard
Publisher:
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Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Sébastien Roch
Author: Octave Mirbeau
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is a classic portrait of a boy''s psychological, sexual and political coming of age in provincial France, set against the background of the Belle Epoque'
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is a classic portrait of a boy''s psychological, sexual and political coming of age in provincial France, set against the background of the Belle Epoque'
Lettre circulaire... relativement à l'examen des jeunes prêtres et aux conférences ecclésiastiques
Author: Église catholique. Diocèse (Vannes)
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 7
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Languages : fr
Pages : 7
Book Description
Lettre-circulaire... sur les examens des jeunes prêtres et sur les retraites pastorales
Author: Église catholique. Diocèse (Angoulême)
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 13
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Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 13
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Lettre circulaire de... au clergé... concernant l'examen annuel des jeunes prêtres
Author: Église catholique. Diocèse (Tours)
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 11
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 11
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