Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789

by Hufton, Olwen

• ISBN13: 9780631215134
• ISBN10: 0631215131
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and significant events of the first era in which modernity is recognisable but provides the essential background to the revolutionary period that followed.

Author Biography

Olwen Hufton The author is a Leverhulme Professor of History at Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She was Professor of History at Reading University until 1987 when she became William Kenan Professor of History at Harvard, a post which she held until 1991. From 1991 to 1997 Olwen Hufton was a Professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.

Table of Contents

Author's note	vi
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I Traditional Structures and the Forces of Change	5	(96)
Social and Economic Developments	7	(21)
The World of Privilege	28	(18)
The World of Ideas	46	(21)
Armies, Interests and Conflict	67	(34)
Part II Central and Eastern Europe	101	(78)
The Holy Roman Empire	103	(9)
The Habsburg Lands	112	(25)
Prussia	137	(20)
Russia	157	(22)
Part III The Western World	179	(78)
Vanished Supremacies: The Iberian Peninsula	181	(20)
The United Provinces	201	(11)
France of the Old Regime	212	(35)
The Old Order Changeth	247	(10)
Conclusion	257	(9)
Select Bibliography	266	(12)
Index	278