Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume Ii: The Peace Of Westphalia To The Dissolution Of The Reich, 1648-1806 (Oxford History Of Early Modern Europe) - Brossura

Whaley, Joachim

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ISBN 10: 0199688834 ISBN 13: 9780199688838

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Riassunto

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that this was a long period of decline, and shows instead how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and Thirty Years War. The impact of international developments on the Reich is also examined.

Volume II begins with the Peace of Westphalia and concludes with the dissolution of the Reich. Whaley analyses the remarkable resurgence of the Reich after the Thirty Years War, which saw the Habsburg emperors achieve a new position of power and influence and which enabled the Reich to withstand the military threats posed by France and the Turks in the later seventeenth century. He gives a rich account of topics such as Pietism and baroque Catholicism, the German enlightenment, and the impact on the Empire and its territories of the French Revolution and Napolean. Whaley emphasizes the continuing viability of the Reich's institutions to the end, and the vitality of a political culture of freedom that has been routinely underestimated by historians of modern Germany.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Joachim Whaley read History at Christ's College Cambridge. He held Fellowships in History at Christ's College and Robinson College before becoming a Lecturer in German in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge, where he teaches German history, thought, and language. He is the author of Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg 1529-1819 and of numerous articles on early modern and modern German history. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1984, and Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199688834
• ISBN 13: 9780199688838
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 774
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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