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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter H Wilson |
| ISBN: | 0415233518 9780415233514 0415150434 9780415150439 |
| OCLC Number: | 43096819 |
| Description: | 173 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Map 1: The Reich in 1648 -- Map 2: The Habsburg and Hohenzollern monarchies -- 1. Emergence -- 2. Theory -- 3. Practice -- 4. Enlightened absolutism -- 5. Conclusions. |
| Series Title: | Historical connections. |
| Responsibility: | Peter H. Wilson. |
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"In a tightly argued historiographical introduction, Wilson points out that it is an abstraction that has been readily employed by generations of scholars without any serious attempt at definition. He attempts to fill this gap by representing asolutism as a distinct stage in the state-building process, during which monarchs used court display to project an image of power and majesty that mixed hard substance with mere pretension. The author reserves a special niche for the period of "enlightened absolutism," which effectively fortified the region's monarchs from the appeal of the French Revolution. This is a very well written and intelligent essay, once which might, however, challenge the analytical skills of the average university student.."<br>-"C. Ingrao, Purdue University, July 2001 <br> Read more...
