Nobles and Nation in Central Europe - Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850

Informationen zum Autor William D. Godsey! Jr. is Tenured Research Fellow of the Historical Commission at the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Vienna. He is the author of Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War (1999). Klappentext A groundbreaking history of nobles in Central Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung In the late Holy Roman Empire! no group better embodied the traditional noble ideal than the Protestant and Catholic knights in Electoral Mainz. This book traces the transnational 'cultural' landscape in which these knights moved and its transformation by social! political and national revolution in Germany and the Habsburg Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Wealth and noble autonomy: the free imperial knights in Maine on the eve of revolution; 2. Nobles becoming Germans: the transformation of a concept; 3. Nobles becoming Germans: the destruction of a 'geo-cultural landscape'; 4. Between destruction and survival: knights on the Middle Rhine 1750-1850; 5. The past recaptured: knights in the Habsburg Empire 1792-1848; 6. From cathedral canons to priests: the Coudenhoves and the 'Catholic revival'; 7. The beginnings of conservative German nationalism: the 'naturalization' of Baron Carl vom und zum Stein (1757-1831); Conclusion; Appendix. Families of Free Imperial Knights (1797).

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• Autori: Jr William D. Godsey, Jr. William D. Godsey, William D. Godsey, William D. Godsey Jr, GODSEY JR WILLIAM D, William D. Godsey Jr.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521836180
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83618-0
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: New Studies in European Histor
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia