Olwen Hufton

Europe: Privilege and Protest

1730-1789

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this classic book provides readers with an introduction to a key period in modern European history. The second edition has been updated in the light of recent scholarship and includes a fully revised bibliography. In the eighteenth century the claims of monarchs and even privileged aristocracies to unquestioned obedience and of the Church to a monopoly of truth were challenged by an increasingly secular and literate society. Reason, the rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary government and increased tolerance shaped discourses of opposition. A growing population pressing on food supplies and the fiscal demands of governments with expansionist ambitions in America, Asia or central and eastern Europe contributed to confrontation and dissent. Professor Hufton provides a fascinating account of the undermining of an archaic social order, top heavy with courts, bureaucracies and standing armies in different European contexts. She demonstrates how privilege was countered with protests which provoked constitutional crises and generated popular violence precipitating Europe into an age of revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780631215134
• ISBN-10: 0631215131
• Artikelnr.: 22472992

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.

Author's Note.

Introduction.

Part I: Traditional Structures and the Forces of Change.

Part II: Central and Eastern Europe.

Part III: The Western World.

Conclusion.

Further Reading.

Index.

Rezensionen

Review of the Previous Edition:

"It is an integrated view set out by a historian of greatlearning, acumen and distinction. No one teaching or learning aboutthe eighteenth century should neglect it." London Review ofBooks

Review of the Second Edition:

"Hufton follows a historiographic paradigm which results in herwriting a truly European history, rather than a mere addition ofnational histories. Similarly, the complex interpretation of theinteractions between political, social, and economic factors ineach of the chapters creates a panoramic view on the Europeanstate(s) of the eighteenth century which is an intellectualpleasure to explore for students and experienced scholars alike."H-Net Reviews