Nobles and Nation in Central Europe
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Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
ISBN-13:
9780521836180
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.11.2015
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Jr William D. Godsey
Gewicht:
674 g
Format:
235x157x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A groundbreaking history of nobles in Central Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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.
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).