This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.
This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their tr...
This volume is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. Absolutism was once a certainty. It was seen as a distinct form of monarchy that dominated the European continent and defined an entire age. It co-ordinated and centralized power, pushing political development towards the modern state. It assisted in the monumental change from feudalism to capitalism and it was characterized by self-confident monarchs, such as Louis XIV. This...
This volume is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it...
This volume is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. Absolutism was once a certainty. It was seen as a distinct form of monarchy that dominated the European continent and defined an entire age. It co-ordinated and centralized power, pushing political development towards the modern state. It assisted in the monumental change from feudalism to capitalism and it was characterized by self-confident monarchs, such as Louis XIV. This...
This volume is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it...
This book examines the role of war and the development of the smaller German territories in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the example of the duchy of WUrttemberg. It reappraises traditional interpretations of German history that emphasize the role of Prussia and play down the significance of the smaller states. This is also the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between developments within such territories and the structure of the Holy Roman Empire of which they formed a part. It reveals the Empire as a flawed but functioning political system and sheds...
This book examines the role of war and the development of the smaller German territories in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the examp...
The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was the most destructive European conflict prior to the twentieth century. It reduced the population of central Europe by around a quarter and left thousands of towns and villages in ruins. This uniquely comprehensive collection of translated documents covers all aspects of the war in the words and images of those who directly experienced it, from the key political and military decision-makers, through the middling ranks of officers and envoys to the masses of ordinary soldiers and civilians, laity and clergy, women and men. Most of the material appears in...
The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was the most destructive European conflict prior to the twentieth century. It reduced the population of central Europe ...
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden....
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste...
Circa il 15% della popolazione mondiale riferisce di avvertire quasi costantemente una sensazione rumorosa nell'orecchio o nella testa. Sono gli acufeni, un fenomeno ben noto sin dall'antichita e spesso molto fastidioso, che tuttavia e considerato un problema serio e cronico solo per una piccola percentuale di soggetti.
Pur non esistendo a tutt'oggi una cura definitiva e risolutiva di questo disturbo - spesso i medici stessi concludono le visite confermando ai pazienti che bisogna imparare a conviverci -, gli acufeni possono essere comunque ridotti a un fastidio ben sopportabile. Per...
Circa il 15% della popolazione mondiale riferisce di avvertire quasi costantemente una sensazione rumorosa nell'orecchio o nella testa. Sono gli ac...
