Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe
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Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe

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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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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781860649493
eBook ISBN
9780857712424
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History
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Contexts: 
European 
and 
Austrian

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Map
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One. Contexts: European and Austrian
  7. 1. Social Forces and Enlightened Policies
  8. 2. Philosophical Kingship and Enlightened Despotism
  9. 3. Christians and `Philosophes`: The Case of the Austrian Enlightenment
  10. 4. Mozart and the Habsburgs
  11. 5. The False Joseph II
  12. Part Two. Joseph II and Reform
  13. 6. Joseph II's Reveries
  14. 7. Love and the Empire
  15. 8. Maria Theresa, Joseph II and the Suppression of the Jesuits
  16. 9. Joseph II and the Monasteries
  17. 10. The Origin's of the Pope's Visit to Joseph II in 1782
  18. 11. Was Joseph II an Enlightened Despot?
  19. 12. Joseph II and Josephism
  20. Select Bibliography of Works in English
  21. Index