Hessian Mercenary State - Ideas, Institutions, and Reform Under Frederick II, 1760-1785

Zusammenfassung In analyzing the origins! course! and effectiveness of domestic policymaking in Hesse-Cassel! Charles Ingrao finds that Frederick was neither as evil as we might think nor as enlightened as we might like to believe. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of source names; 1. Hesse-Cassel and the problem of enlightened absolutism; 2. Policymaking; 3. The postwar recovery; 4. The famine years; 5. Foreign and military policy; 6. Cassel's golden age; 7. The final years; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Ingrao, Charles W. Ingrao
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2003
• EAN: 9780521533225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53322-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Ideas, Institutions, and Refor; Ideas, Institutions, and Refor
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History