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Book SynopsisThis 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. Leading specialists examine the social, religious, intellectual and political history of the long eighteenth century.
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Table of ContentsPreface; 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 1714–60 Brendan Simms; 7. Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730–4 James Van Horn Melton; 8. The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas Joachim Whaley; 9. Culture and Bürgerlichkeit 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 Zauberflöte Mark Berry; 17. Between Louis and Ludwig: from the culture of French power to the power of German culture, c.1789–1848 Emma Winter.
