A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (eBook)

Peter H. Wilson (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-90843-3 (ISBN)

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This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.

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• Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
  
• Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
  
• Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe

Peter H. Wilson is Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull. His books include Europe's Tragedy. A History of the Thirty Years War (2009), From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558-1806 (2004); and Absolutism in Central Europe (2000).

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A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful introductory surveys All specialists on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume. History, The Journal of the Historical Association This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. It considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe. Placing Europe within an international context, contributors investigate key areas of society, economics, culture, and political development. The book concludes with the French and other European revolutions that brought the century to a close, both chronologically and as regards the Ancien R gime. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe examines both established and emerging areas of interest in the field, making it an essential guide for students and scholars.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Maps xvi

Introduction 1
Peter H. Wilson

Part I People, Production, and Consumption 9

1 Eighteenth-Century History and the European Environment 11
Dennis Wheeler

2 Gender 27
Deborah Simonton

3 Rural Economy and Society 47
Markus Cerman

4 Manufacturing, Markets, and Consumption 66
Beverly Lemire

5 Towns and their Inhabitants 82
Marc Schalenberg

6 The Eighteenth-Century Nobility: Challenge and Renewal 94
Hamish Scott

7 Poverty 109
Peter H. Wilson

Part II Cultures 123

8 The Public Sphere 125
Michael Schaich

9 Enlightened Thought, its Critics and Competitors 141
Thomas Munck

10 Medicine, Medical Practice, and Public Health 158
Mary Lindemann

11 Religion 176
Joachim Whaley

12 Popular Culture and Sociability 192
Beat Kümin

13 The Arts 208
Mark Berry

Part III State and Society 225

14 Russia 227
Lindsey Hughes

15 Poland-Lithuania 244
Jerzy Lukowski

16 The Empire, Austria, and Prussia 260
Peter H. Wilson

17 The Scandinavian Kingdoms 276
Michael Bregnsbo

18 The Dutch Republic 289
J. L. Price

19 The Italian States 304
Gregory Hanlon

20 Iberia: Spain and Portugal in the Eighteenth Century 322
Christopher Storrs

21 France 338
Michael Rapport

22 Britain and Hanover 354
Torsten Riotte

Part IV International Connections 369

23 Diplomacy and the Great Powers 371
Andrew C. Thompson

24 Islam and Europe 387
Molly Greene

25 Europe and the World 402
Philippe R. Girard

26 Europe and the Sea 418
Jan Glete

Part V Politics and the State 433

27 Dynasticism and the World of the Court 435
Clarissa Campbell Orr

28 Absolutism and Royal Government 451
Ronald G. Asch

29 War, 1688-1812 464
Ciro Paoletti

30 Participatory Politics 479
David M. Luebke

31 The French and European Revolutions 495
Alan Forrest

Bibliography 512

Index 556

Rezensionen

"This is a useful book. It starts the student off with the idea if
interrelationships between social, economic, cultural and political
change.... University libraries catering for a wide range of
courses in historical subjects will want to consider this for
acquisition." (Reference Reviews, 2009)

"This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a
wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for
effective and thoughtful introductory surveys.... All specialists
on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume."
(History, January 2009)

"A vivid portrait of 18th-century Europe.... Inclusion of
diverse interpretative methodologies, including gender studies
... brings fascinating illumination to period sociology.
Recommended for European history collections." (Library
Journal)

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Notes on Contributors

Ronald G. Asch  is Professor of Early Modern History at Freiburg University, having previously held positions at the German Historical Institute, London, and Münster and Osnabrück universities. His books include Der Hof Karls I. Politik, Provinz und Patronage 1625–1640 (1993), Nobilities in Transition: Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe, c. 1550–1700 (2003), and Jakob I (1567–1625). König von England und Schottland (2005).

Mark Berry  is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2004–7) and Fellow in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has written widely on intellectual and cultural history from the late seventeenth century to the present day, with a special interest in the interaction between music, history, politics, and philosophy. His work on Wagner has been awarded the Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal. Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring is published by Ashgate.

Michael Bregnsbo  is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense. His research interests include early modern Danish and European history, especially state building, political history, church history, and the history of historical ideas, on which he has published several books and articles.

Clarissa Campbell Orr  is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus. She has edited and contributed to Queenship in Britain 1660–1837: Royal Patronage, Dynastic Politics and Court (2002), and Queenship in Europe 1650–1815 (2004), and written other articles on court studies, gender, and enlightenment in the eighteenth century, including the chapter “Dynastic Perspectives” in T. Riotte and B. Simms (eds.), The Hanoverian Dimension to British History (2007).

Markus Cerman  is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. He has published on European economic and social history from the late Middle Ages until the twentieth century including, together with J. Ehmer, T. Hareven, and R. Wall, Family History Revisited (2001), together with H. Zeitlhofer, Soziale Strukturen in Böhmen (2002), and, together with R. Luft, Untertanen, Herrschaft und Staat in Böhmen und im Alten Reich (2005).

Alan Forrest  is Professor of History at the University of York, where he currently co-directs the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His recent publications include Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002), Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (2004), and together with J. P. Bertaud and A. Jourdan, Napoléon, le monde et les Anglais (2004).

Philippe Girard  is Assistant Professor of World History at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His works include Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 U.S. Invasion of Haiti (2004) and Paradise Lost: Haiti’s Tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World Hot Spot (2005). He is currently working on a history of the Haitian revolution.

Jan Glete  is Professor of History at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published several studies of Swedish economic history. His more recent books include Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860 (1993), Warfare at Sea, 1500–1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe (2000), and War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500–1660 (2002).

Molly Greene  is Professor of History at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Program in Hellenic Studies. Her interests include Ottoman history and the history of the Mediterranean basin, with a particular interest in the Hellenic world. Her publications include A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2000) and, as editor, Minorities in the Ottoman Empire (2005).

Gregory Hanlon  is University Research Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His books include L’Univers des gens de bien: Culture et comportements des élites urbaines en Aquitaine au XVIIe siècle (1989), Confessions and Community in Seventeenth-Century France: Catholic and Protestant Co-existence in Aquitaine (1993), The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts 1560–1800 (1998), Early Modern Italy 1550–1800 (2000), and Human Nature in Rural Tuscany: An Early Modern History (2007).

Lindsey Hughes  was Professor of Russian History and Director for Russia Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, until her death in 2007. Her major publications include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1998) and Peter the Great: A Biography (2002). She also edited the Slavonic and East European Review.

Beat Kümin  is Associate Professor in Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick. His research interests focus on social centers in local communities. Publications include The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish 1400–1560 (1996), the co-edited collection The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe (2002), and Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007).

Beverly Lemire  is a Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Canada. Co-editor of the journal Textile History since 2002, her publications include Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain 1660–1800 (1991), Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory (1997), and The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England 1600–1900 (2005). She also co-edited the interdisciplinary collection Women and Credit: Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future (2002).

Mary Lindemann  is Professor of History at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. She is the author of four books: Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712–1830 (1990), Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1996), Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (1999), and Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (2006). She is currently writing a volume on political culture in three early modern cities: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg.

David M. Luebke  is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He is author of His Majesty’s Rebels: Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest (1997) and many articles on seventeenth-century political culture, including “‘Naïve Monarchism’ and Marian Veneration in Early Modern Germany” (Past & Present, 1997) and “How to Become a Loyalist: Petitions, Self-Fashioning, and the Repression of Unrest” (Central European History, 2005).

Jerzy (George) Lukowski  is Reader in Polish History at the University of Birmingham and is currently serving as Head of Department of Modern History. From 2003 to 2005 he was the beneficiary of a Research Readership from the British Academy. His books include Liberty’s Folly: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century (1991), The Partitions of Poland: 1772, 1793, 1795 (1999), The Eighteenth-Century European Nobility (2003), and, with W. H. Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland (2nd edn., 2006).

Thomas Munck  is Reader in History at the University of Glasgow. His books include The Peasantry and the Early Absolute Monarchy in Denmark, 1660–1708 (1979), Seventeenth-Century Europe 1598–1700 (2nd edn., 2005), Computing for Historians: An Introductory Guide (1993), and The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History 1721–1794 (2000).

Ciro Paoletti  is a librarian, a former infantry officer of the Italian army, and Director of the Association for Military and Historical Studies. His books on eighteenth-century warfare include Tra i Borboni e gli Asburgo: le armate terrestri e navali italiane nelle guerre del primo Settecento (1701–1732) (with V. Ilari and G. Boeri, 1996), La corona di Lombardia, guerra ed eserciti nell’Italia del medio Settecento: 1733–1763 (with V. Ilari and G. Boeri, 1997), Gli Italiani in armi: cinque secoli di storia militare nazionale 1495–2000 (2001), and Il principe Eugenio di Savoia (2002).

J. L. Price  is Reader in History at the University of Hull. His publications include Culture and Society in the Dutch Republic during the Seventeenth Century (1974), Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (1994), The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (1998), and Dutch Society 1588–1713 (2000).

Michael Rapport  is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling and author of Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: the Treatment of Foreigners, 1789–1799 (2000) and Nineteenth Century...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to European History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to European History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to European History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1700s, French Revolution, Ancien Regime, rise of the middle class, industrial revolution • 17th & 18th Century Philosophy • Early Modern History (1500-1780) • Europa /Geschichte • Geschichte • Geschichte der frühen Neuzeit (1500-1780) • Geschichte der frühen Neuzeit (1500-1780) • Geschichte der Neuzeit (1780-1900) • History • Modern History (1780-1900) • Philosophie • Philosophie des 17. u. 18. Jhd. • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-118-90843-0 / 1118908430
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-90843-3 / 9781118908433