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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, H. M. (Hamish M.), 1946- editor.

Simms, Brendan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--Europe--History--18th century--Congresses.

Politics and culture.

Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--18th century--Congresses.

Power (Social sciences).

Europe--Politics and government--18th century--Congresses.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--1789-1900--Congresses.

Europe--Civilization--18th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century / James J. Sheehan

When culture meets power: the Prussian coronation of 1701 / Christopher Clark

Military culture in the Reich, c. 1680-1806 / Peter H. Wilson

Diplomatic culture in old regime Europe / Hamish Scott

Early eighteenth-century Britain as a confessional state / Andrew C. Thompson

'Ministers of Europe': British strategic culture, 1714-1760 / Brendan Simms

Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-1734 / James Van Horn Melton

The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas / Joachim Whaley

Culture and Bürgerlichkeit in eighteenth-century Germany / Maiken Umbach

The politics of language and the languages of politics: Latin and the vernaculars in eighteenth-century Hungary / R.J.W. Evans

'Silence, respect obedience': political culture in Louis XV's France / Julian Swann

Joseph II, petitions and the public sphere / Derek Beales

The court nobility and the origins of the French Revolution / Munro Price

The French Revolution and the abolition of nobility / William Doyle

Foreign policy and political culture in later eighteenth-century France / Gary Savage

Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte / Mark Berry

Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture, c. 1789-1848 / Emma L. Winter.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17513-5

1-280-91707-5

9786610917075

0-511-32219-4

0-511-28966-9

0-511-49689-3

0-511-29026-8

0-511-28834-4

0-511-28902-2

OCLC:

476097324