Germany in the Age of Absolutism

By: Rudolf Vierhaus, Jonathan B. Knudsen (Translator)

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Paperback | 21 August 1989

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Rudolf Vierhaus's work is much more than a political history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War. His study reconstructs the historical elements that marked this age. He examines economic developments, the social system, and cultural life, even as he continues to pay close attention to Germany's political organizations, its wars, and political conflicts. German history is set both within the diverse pattern of its regional life and the larger European context, in order to restore a full analytical complexity to the age of absolutism.

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'In place of the traditional chronological account of history, Vierhaus presents a series of analytical sections of socio-economic development, of cultural life, of political organization, and of interstate relations. Without doing violence to the great complexity of the age, he manages to find a connection between certain individual characteristics.' Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 'It is hardly possible to imagine a more suitable author for this project, which seeks to present German history as a part of European history and not just as severely restricted national history ... It is seldom one fields such a well-founded, comprehensive and yet concise account of this important period of German history.' Philosophy and History 'He has made the complexity of the era come alive in European and regional-territorial terms, especially its religious and cultural mentality ... In his carefully balanced presentation he has also not neglected the traditional emphases of political organization, wars, crises and conflicts.' Innsbrucker Historishe Studien 'I view Vierhaus's survey not only to be extraordinarily persuasive but in many ways brilliant and unusually stimulating.' Historische Zeitschrift

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Germany after the Thirty Years War	p. 1
Socioeconomic Consequences: Collapse and Delayed Development	p. 1
Sociocultural Consequences: Exhaustion, Stagnation, Provincialization	p. 4
Political Consequences: The Particularization of Public Life, The Time of Government	p. 8
Economic Development	p. 12
Preliminary Remarks: Stagnation and Restoration	p. 12
Demography	p. 13
Agriculture	p. 16
The Industrial Economy and Trade	p. 20
Mercantilism	p. 28
Society	p. 31
Preliminary Remarks: Encrustation and Dynamic Elements	p. 31
Princes and Courts	p. 33
Old and New Nobility	p. 39
Clergy	p. 43
The Rural Population	p. 45
Rural Artisanal and Manufacturing Labor	p. 48
The Urban Population	p. 50
Exceptional and Marginal Groups, Outsiders, Lowest Orders	p. 52
New Urban Orders	p. 55
Cultural Life	p. 58
Preliminary Remarks: From Baroque to Enlightenment: Estrangement and Independence	p. 58
Confessional Coexistence	p. 60
Religious and Secular Baroque, Courtly Culture	p. 65
Science, Culture, Education	p. 68
Pietism	p. 75
Enlightenment	p. 79
The Worldview and Values of the Burgher Class	p. 84
Political Organization	p. 87
Preliminary Remarks: The Estates and Absolute Monarchy	p. 87
Emperor and Empire	p. 90
Princes and Territorial Estates	p. 97
Imperial Church, Cities, and Nobility	p. 103
Government, Administration, and Bureaucratic Organization under the Sign of Absolutism	p. 108
Absolutism and Enlightened Absolutism	p. 113
Wars, Crises, and Conflicts	p. 116
Preliminary Remarks: Germany and Europe	p. 116
The Preeminence of France and the Rise of the House of Austria	p. 118
The Empire in the European Wars of the Early Eighteenth Century	p. 127
The Rise of Prussia and German Dualism	p. 135
The Seven Years War	p. 141
Conclusion: Germany at the End of the Seven Years War	p. 144
Chronology	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 155
Index	p. 165
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