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Author: James van Horn Melton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521528566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1988 book is a study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.
Author: T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-02-14
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0191543667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T. C. W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library, the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic. It was here that public opinion staked its claim to be the ultimate arbiter of culture and politics. For the established order this new force was to prove both a challenge and an opportunity and the author's comparative study of power and culture shows how regimes sought to keep their balance as the ground moved beneath their feet. In the process he explains, among other things, why Britain won the 'Second Hundred Years War' against France, how Prussia rose to become the dominant power in German-speaking Europe, and why the French monarchy collapsed.
Author: Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780719034923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliographical guide contains 10,000 references to the economic and social history of 30 European countries during the period 1700-1939. More than 3000 periodicals have been consulted to obtain references, as well as books, edited collections and conference proceedings. The information is listed in categories such as industry, agriculture, finance, migration, labour conditions, urban communities and organizations. Full publication details are included, so that references may be located easily.
Author: Philip G. Dwyer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1317887034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of the eighteenth century Prussia was but one in a mosaic of German states, but it rose to be the unchallenged leader of German-speaking Europe after the fall of Napoleon. The book goes beyond the political, military and diplomatic concerns of the Prussian elite, whose record of events is the one upon which most histories of Prussia are based, and explains its rise in relation to Prussian society as a whole. Political analysis is integrated with material on such areas as agrarian society, urban life and religion, which are not fully examined in existing histories.
Author: Hamish M. Scott
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 019959726X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of "early modernity" itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to "Cultures and Power", opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.
Author: G. Felicitas Munzel
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012-08-31
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0810128012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Kant was involved in the education debates of his time, it is widely held that in his mature philosophical writings he remained silent on the subject. In her groundbreaking Kant’s Conception of Pedagogy, G. Felicitas Munzel finds extant in Kant’s writings the so-called missing critical treatise on education. It appears in the Doctrines of Method with which he concludes each of his major works. In it, Kant identifies the fundamental principles for the cultivation of reason’s judgment when it comes to cognition, beauty, nature, and the exercise of morality while subject to the passions and inclinations that characterize the human experience. From her analysis, Munzel extrapolates principles for a cosmopolitan education that parallels the structure of Kant’s republican constitution for perpetual peace. With the formal principles in place, the argument concludes with a query of the material principles that would fulfill the formal conditions required for an education for freedom.
Author: Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-12-31
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 331911803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book outlines the historical development of Public Law and the state from ancient times to the modern day, offering an account of relevant events in parallel with a general historical background, establishing and explaining the relationships between political, religious, and economic events.
Author: Nancy Sinkoff
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 193067516X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John G. Gagliardo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1317872207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement of this major contribution to the new History of Germany is to do justice to the variety and multiplicity of the period without foundering under the wealth of information it conveys.
Author: John P. McKay
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-10-13
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0312640625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow from Bedford/St. Martin's, A History of Western Society is one of the most successful textbooks available because it captures students' interest in the everyday life of the past and ties social history to the broad sweep of politics and culture. The tenth edition has been thoroughly revised to strengthen the text's readability, heighten its attention to daily life, and incorporate the insights of new scholarship, including an enhanced treatment of European exploration and a thoroughly revised post-1945 section. With a dynamic new design, new special features, and a completely revised and robust companion reader, this major revision makes the past memorable and accessible for a new generation of students and instructors.
