Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism
Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism

Author: T. C. W. Blanning

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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This series provides studies with supporting documents of important topics in History. The books provide an analysis of the selected problem, a critical narrative of the main developments and an assessment putting the topic into perspective. Each book features a full collection of original documentary material, which is introduced so that it can be used independently of the text, although the text and the documents are carefully cross-referenced. There is also a very full and up-to-date reading list in each book, listing relevant books and articles that should be obtainable by students.

Joseph II
Joseph II

Author: T C W Blanning

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317899660

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Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the "Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. Professor Blanning's brilliant short study, based on extensive archival research, offers a history of the Habsburg monarchy in the eighteenth century, as well as a revaluation of the emperor's complex personality and his ill-fated reform programme.

Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe
Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe

Author: Derek Beales

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-03-24

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 085771242X

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The 18th century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Britain conquered India and much of America, the American Revolution produced the USA, and Russia expanded vastly. In the field of ideas the Scientific Revolution was consolidated and followed by the Enlightenment. Nationalism flourished, populations surged, and the Commercial and Industrial Revolutions with Western technology eclipsed the East. Few centuries have inspired such a galaxy of historians, and their groundbreaking work has been drawn upon by Derek Beales in his collection of articles and special lectures. He covers the whole European kaleidoscope, but focuses especially on Joseph II and the Hapburg monarchy, asserting that Enlightened Despotism was the emodiment of the century's revolution in ideas, politics, government and administration.

Jesuits and Jacobins
Jesuits and Jacobins

Author: Paul P. Bernard

Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"Josephinism was the collective domestic policies of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1765?1790). During the ten years in which Joseph was the sole ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy (1780?1790), he attempted to legislate a series of drastic reforms to remodel Austria in the form of the ideal Enlightened state. This provoked severe resistance from powerful forces within and outside of his empire, but ensured that he would be remembered as an "enlightened ruler."--Wikipedia.