Cultures power europe 18th cen

Hamish Scott, Brendan Simms0521842271, 9780521842273, 9780511290268

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.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
Contributors……Page 13
1 Introduction: culture and power during the
long eighteenth century……Page 19
I……Page 20
II……Page 26
I……Page 32
II……Page 35
III……Page 44
IV……Page 52
3 Military culture in the Reich, c. 1680–1806……Page 54
State power……Page 58
Military culture……Page 66
Conclusions……Page 74
I……Page 76
II……Page 78
III……Page 83
IV……Page 88
V……Page 90
VI……Page 100
I……Page 104
II……Page 110
III……Page 114
IV……Page 124
6 ‘Ministers of Europe’: British strategic
culture, 1714–1760……Page 128
I……Page 132
II……Page 139
III……Page 145
7 Confessional power and the power of
confession: concealing and revealing the
faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730–1734……Page 151
Sounds of music in Alpine Salzburg: Corpus Christi, 1730……Page 152
Signifying confessional identity: Jesuit missions and Marian devotion……Page 161
Polarization and expulsion……Page 171
8 The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas……Page 176
I……Page 178
II……Page 181
III……Page 186
IV……Page 189
V……Page 193
VI……Page 196
9 Culture and Burgerlichkeit in eighteenth-century Germany……Page 198
10 The politics of language and the languages
of politics: Latin and the vernaculars in
eighteenth-century Hungary……Page 218
II / KAZINCZY’ S FIRST INTERROGATION (MOSTLY BY ONE MIKOS, A MAGYAR LIKE THE REST)……Page 240
I I I / MORE QUESTIONING (BY NÉMETH)……Page 241
V/ SZENTMARJAY IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH……Page 242
11 ‘Silence, respect obedience’: political culture
in Louis XV’s France……Page 243
Maupeou’s challenge……Page 245
The ‘king’s true servants’……Page 248
The king’s will is law……Page 250
The parlementaire response……Page 256
Military despotism……Page 260
Conclusion……Page 265
12 Joseph II, petitions and the public sphere……Page 267
I……Page 287
II……Page 289
III……Page 293
IV……Page 297
V……Page 305
14 The French Revolution and the
abolition of nobility……Page 307
15 Foreign policy and political culture in later
eighteenth-century France……Page 322
I……Page 343
II……Page 344
III……Page 347
IV……Page 354
V……Page 363
17 Between Louis and Ludwig: from the
culture of French power to the power
of German culture, c. 1789–1848……Page 366
Index……Page 387