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Cultures of power in Europe during the long eighteenth century / edited by Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xv, 382 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521154635
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.2/53 22
LOC classification:
  • D288. C85 2007
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Contents:
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 1714-1760 Brendan Simms; 7. Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-34 James Van Horn Melton; 8. The transformation of the Aufklarung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas Joachim Whaley; 9. Culture and Burgerlichkeit 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 Zauberflote Mark Berry; 17. Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture, c.1789-1848 Emma Winter.
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Revisions of papers originally presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England, in Sept. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 1714-1760 Brendan Simms; 7. Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-34 James Van Horn Melton; 8. The transformation of the Aufklarung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas Joachim Whaley; 9. Culture and Burgerlichkeit 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 Zauberflote Mark Berry; 17. Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture, c.1789-1848 Emma Winter.