Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

by Edited by Hamish Scott , Brendan Simms

• ISBN13: 9780521154635
• ISBN10: 0521154634
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century

When culture meets power: the Prussian coronation of 1701

Military culture in the Reich, c.1680-1806

Diplomatic culture in Old Regime Europe

Early eighteenth-century Britain as a confessional state

'Ministers for Europe': British strategic culture 1714-1760

Confessional power and the power of confession: concealing and revealing the faith in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-34

The transformation of the Aufklärung: from the idea of power to the power of ideas

Culture and Bürgerlichkeit in eighteenth-century Germany

The politics of language and the languages of politics: Latin and the Vernaculars in eighteenth-century Hungary

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

Joseph II, petitions and the public sphere

The court nobility and the origins of the French Revolution

The French Revolution and the abolition of nobility

Political culture and foreign policy in later eighteenth-century France

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

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

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