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Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign

Author : William E. Wright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816658935
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign written by William E. Wright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1966-12-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is a detailed history of the agrarian reforms which took place in Bohemia during the reigns of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa, 1740–1780, and Joseph II, 1780–1790. The enactment of the land reforms had far-reaching social, economic, and political effects, and the subject constitutes an important chapter in the history of the nation we now know as Czechoslovakia. The topic has been hardly touched in English, however, and has only recently been properly treated by the Marxist historians of post-World War II Czechoslovakia. Much of Professor Wright's account is based on documents not previously used by historians, particularly materials in the Hofkammerarchiv in Vienna. The author provides a background by describing the development of serfdom in Bohemia over approximately two hundred years prior to the accession of Maria Theresa to the throne of Austria in 1740. In major sections of the book Professor Wright traces the causes, events, and effects of the program of agrarian reform which Maria Theresa and Joseph II carried out. He shows how the changes in the land system profoundly affected the relationships of the serf, seigneur, and sovereign, and how they paved the way for the much greater social revolution which was to come with the emancipation of 1848. In addition to providing a wealth of factual information, the account gives a dramatic picture of the plight of the peasant, along with valid glimpses of the personalities of the rulers and their ministers. Specialists in European history, social history, or agrarian history will find the book particularly rewarding.

Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign

Author : William Edward Wright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452911614
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign written by William Edward Wright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign; Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia, by William E. Wright

Author : William F. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign; Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia, by William E. Wright written by William F. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Czech, German, and Noble

Author : Rita Krueger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190295848
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Czech, German, and Noble written by Rita Krueger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech, German, and Noble examines the intellectual ideas and political challenges that inspired patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion of national identity into public and institutional life, and the role of the nobility in crafting and supporting the national ideal within Habsburg Bohemia. Patriotic aristocrats created the visible and public institutional framework that cultivated national sentiment and provided the national movement with a degree of intellectual and social legitimacy. The book argues that the mutating identity of the aristocracy was tied both to insecurity and to a belief in the power of science to address social problems, commitment to the ideals of enlightenment as well as individual and social improvement, and profound confidence that progress was inevitable and that intellectual achievement would save society. The aristocrats who helped create, endow and nationalize institutions were a critical component of the public sphere and necessary for the nationalization of public life overall. The book explores the myriad reasons for aristocratic participation in new or nationalized institutions, the fundamental changes in legal and social status, new ideas about civic responsibility and political participation, and the hope of reform and fear of revolution. The book examines the sociability within and creation of nascent national institutions that incorporated fundamentally new ways of thinking about community, culture, competition, and status. The argument, that class mattered to the degree that it was irrelevant, intersects with several important historical questions beyond theories of nationalism, including debates about modernization and the longevity of aristocratic power, the nature of the public sphere and class, and the measurable impact of science and intellectual movements on social and political life.

The Charmed Circle

Author : Rebecca Gates-Coon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 161249370X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Charmed Circle written by Rebecca Gates-Coon and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late eighteenth-century Vienna a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the "five princesses," achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary (1728-1801); Princess Maria Sidonia Kinsky (1729-1815); Princess Maria Leopoldine Liechtenstein (1733-1809); Countess, subsequently Princess, Maria Leopoldine Kaunitz (1741-1795); and Princess Maria Eleonore Liechtenstein (1745-1812). The group assumed a stable form by 1772, by which time Joseph II and two of his closest male associates, Field Marshal Franz Moritz Lacy and Count Franz Xavier Orsini-Rosenberg, had become accepted members of the circle as well. During the Viennese social season, members of the group made their way several times each week to the inner city palace of one of the "Dames," as members of the group called themselves. During the summer months, when the women dispersed to visit country estates in Bohemia and Moravia or to travel, group members corresponded regularly. These were exciting, restless years in the Habsburg monarchy, as reforms were implemented to help the monarchy withstand threats to its stability and international stature from without and within. With assured access to the emperor and his closest advisors, the Dames enjoyed both a unique view of events and a chance to participate in public affairs (albeit informally and discreetly) as steadfast, acknowledged friends of the emperor. Through analysis of the correspondence of these women and of the published and unpublished commentaries of their contemporaries, this study scrutinizes the activities of this select group of women during the co-regency period (1765-1780) when Joseph shared responsibility with his mother, Maria Theresia, and during Joseph's decade as sole ruler (1780-1790) after Maria Theresia's death-years during which the women enjoyed their special position.

Serfdom and Slavery

Author : M. L. Bush
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887476
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Serfdom and Slavery written by M. L. Bush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays that illuminate the nature, development, impact and termination of serfdom and slavery in European society. While the case studies range form classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia, the volume as a whole is closely integrated. It makes an important contribution to a topic of increasing international interest.

The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part II

Author : Franco Venturi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861918
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part II written by Franco Venturi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe

Author : Daniel Chirot
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520076402
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe written by Daniel Chirot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world except for that unique part of the West which has given us a false model of what was "normal," Eastern Europe developed slowly. The weight of established class relations, geography, lack of technological innovation, and wars kept the area from growing richer. In the nineteenth century the West exerted a powerful influence, but it was political more than economic. Nationalism and the creation of newly independent aspiring nation-states then began to shape national economies, often in unfavorable ways. One of this book's most important lessons is that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes. The authors offer no simple explanations but rather a theoretically complex synthesis that demonstrates the interaction of politics and economics.

Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500

Author : M. L. Bush
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317896807
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500 written by M. L. Bush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general theoretical section on the concept of orders and class, the book provides discussions and case studies of the nobility, the clergy, the middle classes and the rural and urban proletariat. The studies are drawn from all over Europe, from early modern Castile to late Tsarist Russia. Contributors include Peter Burke, Stuart Woolf, A A Thompson and Joseph Bergin.

Imperial Russian Foreign Policy

Author : Hugh Ragsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521442299
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Russian Foreign Policy written by Hugh Ragsdale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Russian Foreign Policy aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicions of diabolical cunning, inscrutable motives, and international plots using unseen forces of the gigantic, fear-inspiring empire of the tsar. The contributors, leading historians from both Russia and the West, examine Imperial foreign policy from its origins to the October Revolution, revealing a policy that, as in other countries, had a complex of motives - commerce, nationalism, the interests of various social groups - but an unusual origin, coming almost exclusively from the entourage of the tsar. The work is based largely on original research in Soviet archives, which only became possible after Soviet glasnost.

The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914

Author : David F. Good
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520050945
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914 written by David F. Good and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joseph II: Volume 2, Against the World, 1780-1790

Author : Derek Edward Dawson Beales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521324882
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph II: Volume 2, Against the World, 1780-1790 by : Derek Edward Dawson Beales

Download or read book Joseph II: Volume 2, Against the World, 1780-1790 written by Derek Edward Dawson Beales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II describes the critical period when he was sole ruler of the Austrian monarchy. Explaining his motivation and showing how his ideas developed, Derek Beales reveals that Joseph left an ineffaceable mark on all his lands.

A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918

Author : Robert A. Kann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520042063
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 written by Robert A. Kann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-11-26 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes, surveys, and discusses the major historical aspects of the Habsburg Empire - diplomatic, political, institutional, socioeconomic, and cultural.

Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780

Author : Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466905
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780 written by Franz A. J. Szabo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy (1753-1792), emerges from this study as the key figure in the development of enlightened absolutism and the guiding spirit behind the modernization of the state.

Lineages of the Absolutist State

Author : Perry Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680108
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Lineages of the Absolutist State written by Perry Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why didn’t Italy develop into an Absolutist state in the same, indigenous way as the other dominant Western countries, namely Spain, France and England? On the other hand, how did Eastern European countries develop into Absolutist states similar to those of the West, when their social conditions diverged so drastically? Reflecting on examples in Islamic and East Asian history, as well as the Ottoman Empire, Anderson concludes by elucidating the particular role of European development within universal history.

German History, 1770-1866

Author : James J. Sheehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198204329
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book German History, 1770-1866 written by James J. Sheehan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this is a uniquely authoritative study of Germany from the mid-18th century to the formation of the Bismarckian Reich.

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World

Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471792
Total Pages : 2052 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World written by Junius P. Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.