Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The eighteenth century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Britain conquered India and much of America, the American Revolution produced the USA, and Russia expanded vastly. In the field of ideas the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was consolidated and followed by the Enlightenment. Nationalism flourished, populations surged and the Commercial and Industrial Revolutions with Western technology eclipsed the East. Few centuries have inspired such a galaxy of...
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The eighteenth century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Britain conquered India and much of America, the American Revolution produced the USA, and Russia expanded vastly. In the field of ideas the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was consolidated and followed by the Enlightenment. Nationalism flourished, populations surged and the Commercial and Industrial Revolutions with Western technology eclipsed the East. Few centuries have inspired such a galaxy of historians, and their groundbreaking work has been drawn upon by Derek Beales in his collection of articles and special lectures. He covers the whole European kaleidoscope but especially Joseph II and the Habsburg monarchy, and sees Enlightened Despotism as the embodiment of the century's revolution in ideas, policies, government and administration.
Map : the Austrian monarchy in the eighteenth centuryPt. 1Contexts : European and Austrian51Social forces and enlightened policies72Philosophical kingship and enlightened despotism283Christians and 'Philosophes' : the case of the Austrian Enlightenment604Mozart and the Habsburgs905The false Joseph II117Pt. 2Joseph II and reform1556Joseph II's Reveries1577Love and the empire : Maria Theresa and her co-regents1828Maria Theresa, Joseph II and the suppression of the Jesuits2079Joseph II and the monasteries of Austria and Hungary22710The origins of the pope's visit to Joseph II in 178225611Was Joseph II an enlightened despot?26212Joseph II and Josephism287
