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The European Nobilities H. Scott

The European Nobilities By H. Scott

The European Nobilities by H. Scott

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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.

The European Nobilities Summary

The European Nobilities: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe by H. Scott

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.

The European Nobilities Reviews

'A second edition of a most useful collection...The reappearance of these volumes is very welcome...' - Jeremy Black, History, The Journal of the Historical Association

Reviews of the First Edition:

'An ambitious study of a large and very diverse subject...It will remain for the forseeable future the best survey of its subject in English.' - M.S.Anderson, English Historical Review (1995)

'Nobody edits books better than Hamish Scott' - Charles Ingrao, Central European History (1996)

About H. Scott

KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN Professor of Modern History at Odense University, Denmark R.J.W. EVANS Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, UK ROBERT I. FROST Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK ISABEL DE MADARIAGA Professor Emerita of Russian Studies in the University of London, UK EDGAR MELTON Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, USA JAMES VAN HORN MELTON Professor of History at Emory University, USA PETER SCHIMERT PhD Graduate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and Lecturer, McDaniel College, Budapest, Hungary A.F. UPTON Professor Emeritus of Nordic History at the University of St Andrews, UK PETER H. WILSON Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sunderland, UK.

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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NPB9781403933751
9781403933751
1403933758
The European Nobilities: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe by H. Scott
H. Scott
New
Hardback
Palgrave USA
2006-12-06
433
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