Hamish Scott / Brendan Simms (eds.)

Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

Herausgeber: Scott, Hamish; Simms, Brendan

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Produktbeschreibung

This original 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780521842273
• ISBN-10: 0521842271
• Artikelnr.: 22709118

Autorenporträt

Hamish Scott is Wardlaw Professor of International History at the University of St Andrews. His recent publications include The Emergence of the Eastern Powers 1756(?)1;1775 (2001); and The Birth of a Great Power System 1740(?)1;1815 (2006).
Brendan Simms is Reader in the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His publications include The Impact of Napoleon. Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797(?)1;1806 (1997) and as an editor with Torsten Riotte, The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714(?)1;1837 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth
century James J. Sheehan; 2. When culture meets power: the Prussian
coronation of 1701 Christopher Clark; 3. Military culture in the Reich,
c.1680-1806 Peter H. Wilson; 4. Diplomatic culture in Old Regime Europe
Hamish Scott; 5. Early eighteenth-century Britain as a confessional state
Andrew C. Thompson; 6. 'Ministers for Europe': British strategic culture
1714-60 Brendan Simms; 7. Confessional power and the power of confession:
concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-4 James Van
Horn Melton; 8. The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of
power to the power of ideas Joachim Whaley; 9. Culture and Bürgerlichkeit
in eighteenth-century Germany Maiken Umbach; 10. The politics of language
and the languages of politics: Latin and the Vernaculars in
eighteenth-century Hungary R. J. W. Evans; 11. 'Silence, respect
obedience': political culture in Louis XV's France Julian Swann; 12. Joseph
II, petitions and the public sphere Derek Beales; 13. The court nobility
and the origins of the French Revolution Munro Price; 14. The French
Revolution and the abolition of nobility William Doyle; 15. Political
culture and foreign policy in later eighteenth-century France Gary Savage;
16. Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
Mark Berry; 17. Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power
to the power of German culture, c.1789-1848 Emma Winter.