UID:
almafu_9959241476302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-16138-X
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1-280-75006-5
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0-511-26533-6
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0-511-26605-7
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0-511-26378-3
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0-511-31768-9
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0-511-49675-3
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0-511-26461-5
Serie:
New studies in European history
Inhalt:
This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world came to an end with the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in 1792. Quite apart from the social, economic and political dislocations and loss, the era from 1789 to 1815 also meant a cultural reorientation for the nobility. William D. Godsey, Jr. here explores how nobles in post-revolutionary Germany gradually abandoned their old self-understanding and assimilated with the new cultural 'nation' while aristocrats in the Habsburg Empire, which had taken in many emigres from Mainz, moved instead towards supranationalism. This is a major contribution to debates about the relationship between identity, cultural nationalism, supranationalism and religion in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Wealth and noble autonomy: the free imperial knights in Maine on the eve of revolution -- 2. Nobles becoming Germans: the transformation of a concept -- 3. Nobles becoming Germans: the destruction of a 'geo-cultural landscape' -- 4. Between destruction and survival: knights on the Middle Rhine 1750-1850 -- 5. The past recaptured: knights in the Habsburg Empire 1792-1848 -- 6. From cathedral canons to priests: the Coudenhoves and the 'Catholic revival' -- 7. The beginnings of conservative German nationalism: the 'naturalization' of Baron Carl Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-12315-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-83618-2
Sprache:
Englisch
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