Northern, central and eastern Europe

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Northern, central and eastern Europe

edited by H.M. Scott

(The European nobilities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, v. 2)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

2nd ed

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published by Longman 1995, this edition published 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Essays with national approaches provide unique coverage of Europe's Old Regime nobilities, from Britain to Russia and from Sweden to Portugal, framed by a substantial comparative editorial introduction and concluded by a survey of the fate of the nobilities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

  • List of Maps List of Tables Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary of Technical Terms Introduction: The Evolution of the Service Nobilities
  • H.M.Scott The Swedish Nobility, 1600-1772
  • A.F.Upton The Rise and Fall of the Danish Nobility, 1600-1800
  • Knud J.V.Jespersen The Nobility of the Early Modern Reich, 1495-1806
  • Peter H.Wilson The Junkers of Brandenburg-Prussia, 1600-1806
  • Edgar Melton The Nobility of the Bohemian and Austrian Lands, 1620-1780
  • James Van Horn Melton The Early Modern Hungarian Nobility
  • Peter Schimert The Nobility of Hungary in the Eighteenth Century
  • R.J.W.Evans The Nobility of Poland - Lithuania, 1569-1795
  • Robert I.Frost The Russian Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Isabel de Madariaga Conclusion: The Continuity of Aristocratic Power
  • H.M.Scott Guides to Further Reading Index

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