The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763J. O. Lindsay Cambridge University Press, 1957 - 646 pàgines This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion. |
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
North America by FRANK THISTLETHWAITE Formerly ViceChancellor | 2 |
Subordination of Hungary to Austria survival of some Hungarian independence page 4023 | 3 |
Walpoles successors Carteret and Pelham page 2534 | 4 |
Strategy primarily defensive | 5 |
Mediterranean crisis provoked by Elizabeth Farnese page 1967 | 7 |
Treaty of AixlaChapelle page 52021 | 21 |
CHAPTER II | 27 |
Education of the Crown Prince 3078 | 311 |
Reform of the judicial system | 317 |
Reorganisation of the army page | 323 |
Annas accession administrative reform | 329 |
Orlovs revolution the Church | 335 |
Settlement after the Great Northern War 33940 | 341 |
HolsteinGottorp claims in SlesvigHolstein 3457 | 347 |
Composition and powers of the Four Estates 3534 | 354 |
English naval strength | 33 |
Commercial rivalries in India | 39 |
Foreign trade relied on naval strength | 45 |
Aristocratic character supported by Church | 51 |
Political powers of nobles varied from country to country 655553 | 57 |
Aristocratic nature of society undermined by growth of middle class page | 58 |
CHAPTER IV | 66 |
Natural treatment of contemporary life | 72 |
Baroque painting 778 | 78 |
CHAPTER V | 85 |
Period of diffusion rather than advance | 91 |
Great importance of history page | 93 |
Political ideas of secondary importance 586 | 99 |
Belief in possibility of reform | 105 |
CHAPTER VI | 113 |
Reform of breviary and missal 11819 | 119 |
Suppression of Jesuits in France | 125 |
Pietism and rationalism both anticlerical | 131 |
Projects of Christian reunion | 138 |
Direct taxes | 151 |
Hungarian provincial government | 157 |
Many wars were purely dynastic | 166 |
Naval warfare 522 | 170 |
British reliance on naval supremacy | 173 |
Use made of nobility in Prussian army | 183 |
Jacobite rising of 1745 254 | 194 |
Expeditions organised by Alberoni | 197 |
AngloFrench diplomacy in northeast Europe | 203 |
Share of South Sea Bubble in causing war of 1739 2079 | 210 |
Lack of unified fiscal system | 216 |
Policy of regent 220I | 223 |
Failure of regents administrative reforms | 224 |
Religious policy of the regent | 231 |
Rise of Pitt | 255 |
Influence and patronage 2612 | 264 |
Spain in state of economic collapse at end of seventeenth century 26971 | 275 |
Reality less attractive much poverty and oppression | 281 |
Ensenadas economic reforms | 287 |
Gradual unification of Hohenzollern territories | 293 |
Encouragement of immigration | 302 |
Swedens dependence of Russia after Treaty of Abo | 361 |
POLAND UNDER the SAXON KINGS | 365 |
Education and intellectual life 370I | 372 |
Czartoryskis and Potockis | 379 |
The Seven Years War 3856 | 385 |
CHAPTER XVII | 391 |
Pragmatic Sanction enacted | 397 |
Habsburg support for Roman Catholicism in Hungary | 403 |
Maria Theresas concessions to Hungary | 409 |
Administrative and judicial reforms Haugwitz 41214 | 415 |
Election of Charles Albert as Emperor | 421 |
Austrian strategy in Germany weakened by Spanish intervention in Italy 4246 | 428 |
FrancoSpanish armies repulsed | 434 |
LATIN AMERICA | 487 |
Capture of Guadeloupe Family Compact | 523 |
British colonial development 5289 | 529 |
French offensive in Ohio | 535 |
Social structure Creole resentment of Spanish misgovernment | 541 |
Marathas under Shahu aims of Maratha policies | 547 |
Growth of the country powers | 553 |
Condition of India in 1748 French bid for Indian Empire | 559 |
Methods of recruiting for British army and navy | 563 |
Consolidation of British rule in Bengal | 565 |
AFRICA | 566 |
THE ENGLISH INSPIRATION | 570 |
Dutch and French companies 5701 | 573 |
Madagascar Ethiopia | 579 |
Chinese distrust and misunderstanding of foreigners 5845 | 587 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreet ... William G Godfrey Previsualització limitada - 1982 |
Leben und Werk des Kameralisten Philipp Wilhelm von ..., Volum 3;Volum 108 Heinz-Joachim Brauleke Visualització de fragments - 1978 |