Simon Dixon

Catherine the Great

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neither a comprehensive 'life and times' nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial authority in eighteenth century Russia. Its purpose is to see how Catherine II of Russia conceived of her power and how it was represented to her subjects. Simon Dixon asks essential questions about Catherin'es life and reign, and offers new and stimulating arguments about the Englightenment, the power of the monarch in early modern Europe, and the much-debated role of the "great individual" in history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780582098039
• ISBN-10: 0582098033
• Artikelnr.: 21904052

Autorenporträt

Simon Dixon

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 The problem of power
Chapter 2 Catherine takes power
Chapter 3 Images of power
Chapter 4 The power of ideas: Catherine and the
philosophes
Chapter 5 Catherine and Russian political culture
Chapter 6 Enlightened despotism
Chapter 7 Power relationships in Russia
Chapter 8 Russia as a European great power
Chapter 9 Epilogue: power transferred and transformed