William D. Jr. Godsey

Nobles and Nation in Central Europe

Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750 1850

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking history of nobles in Central Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123150
• ISBN-10: 0521123151
• Artikelnr.: 27008109

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Wealth and noble autonomy: the free imperial knights in Maine on the eve of revolution
2. Nobles becoming Germans: the transformation of a concept
3. Nobles becoming Germans: the destruction of a 'geo-cultural landscape'
4. Between destruction and survival: knights on the Middle Rhine 1750-1850
5. The past recaptured: knights in the Habsburg Empire 1792-1848
6. From cathedral canons to priests: the Coudenhoves and the 'Catholic revival'
7. The beginnings of conservative German nationalism: the 'naturalization' of Baron Carl vom und zum Stein (1757-1831)
Conclusion
Appendix. Families of Free Imperial Knights (1797).