
- 256 pages
- English
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Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- Part One. Contexts: European and Austrian
- 1. Social Forces and Enlightened Policies
- 2. Philosophical Kingship and Enlightened Despotism
- 3. Christians and `Philosophes`: The Case of the Austrian Enlightenment
- 4. Mozart and the Habsburgs
- 5. The False Joseph II
- Part Two. Joseph II and Reform
- 6. Joseph II's Reveries
- 7. Love and the Empire
- 8. Maria Theresa, Joseph II and the Suppression of the Jesuits
- 9. Joseph II and the Monasteries
- 10. The Origin's of the Pope's Visit to Joseph II in 1782
- 11. Was Joseph II an Enlightened Despot?
- 12. Joseph II and Josephism
- Select Bibliography of Works in English
- Index