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Northern, central and eastern Europe
(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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