Nobles and Nation in Central Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobles and Nation in Central Europe write by William D. Godsey, Jr. This book was released on 2004-11-18. Nobles and Nation in Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nobles and Nation in Central Europe
Nobles and Nation in Central Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobles and Nation in Central Europe write by William D. Godsey, Jr. This book was released on 2004-11-18. Nobles and Nation in Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No group better embodied the traditional noble ideal in the late Holy Roman Empire than the pedigreed knights, Protestant and Catholic, of Electoral Mainz. This study traces the transnational "geocultural" landscape in which they thrived and its transformation by social, political and national revolution. It explores the comparative history of the knights who became divided between those who emigrated to the Habsburg Empire (where their geocultural landscape survived) and those who remained in Germany and forged a new identity as nobles in the cultural world of the "nation".
Whose Love of Which Country?
Whose Love of Which Country? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Whose Love of Which Country? write by Balázs Trencsényi. This book was released on 2010. Whose Love of Which Country? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume, stemming from the long-term cooperation of scholars working on East Central European intellectual history, discusses the patterns of patriotic and national identification in the light of the multiplicity of levels of ethnic, cultural and political allegiances characterizing this region in the early modern period.
The Scotch-Irish
The Scotch-Irish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scotch-Irish write by Ron Chepesiuk. This book was released on 2005-04-15. The Scotch-Irish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Scotch-Irish began emigrating to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the seventeenth century to form the Ulster Plantation. In the next century these Scottish Presbyterians migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search of a better life. Except for the English, the Scotch-Irish were the largest ethnic group to come to the New World during the eighteenth century. By the time of the American Revolution there were an estimated 250,000 Scotch-Irish in the colonies, about a tenth of the population. Twelve U.S. presidents can trace their lineage to the Scotch-Irish. This work discusses the life of the Scotch-Irish in Ireland, their treatment by their English overlords, the reasons for emigration to America, the settlement patterns in the New World, the movement westward across America, life on the colonial frontier, Scotch-Irish contributions to America's development, and sites of Scotch-Irish interest in the north of Ireland.
Power and the Nation in European History
Power and the Nation in European History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and the Nation in European History write by Len Scales. This book was released on 2005-06-09. Power and the Nation in European History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.
