Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
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"It is an integrated view set out by a historian of great learning, acumen and distinction."
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The new edition of this classic book provides readers with an introduction to a key period in modern European history. The second edition has been updated in the light of recent scholarship and includes a fully revised bibliography.In the eighteenth century the claims of monarchs and even privileged aristocracies to unquestioned obedience and of the Church to a monopoly of truth were challenged by an increasingly secular and literate society. Reason, the rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary government and increased tolerance shaped discourses of opposition. A growing population pressing on food supplies and the fiscal demands of governments with expansionist ambitions in America, Asia or central and eastern Europe contributed to confrontation and dissent.Professor Hufton provides a fascinating account of the undermining of an archaic social order, top heavy with courts, bureaucracies and standing armies in different European contexts. She demonstrates how privilege was countered with protests which provoked constitutional crises and generated popular violence precipitating Europe into an age of revolution.
Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe),Olwen Hufton,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,0631213813,18th century,Economic conditions,Europe,Europe - General,History,History - General History,History: World,Modern - 18th Century,Modern - General,Politics and government,Social conditions,Business & Economics / Economic Conditions,EUROPE_ECONOMIC CONDITIONS,EUROPE_HISTORY_18TH CENTURY,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,European history: c 1750 to c 1900,c 1700 to c 1800
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