The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture Old Regime Europe 1660 1789 1st Edition by T C W Blanning ISBN 0198227450 9780198227458

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ISBN 10: 0198227450 
ISBN 13: 9780198227458
Author: T C W Blanning

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T. C. W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV’s Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space – the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world’s most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library, the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic. It was here that public opinion staked its claim to be the ultimate arbiter of culture and politics. For the established order this new force was to prove both a challenge and an opportunity and the author’s comparative study of power and culture shows how regimes sought to keep their balance as the ground moved beneath their feet. In the process he explains, among other things, why Britain won the ‘Second Hundred Years War’ against France, how Prussia rose to become the dominant power in German-speaking Europe, and why the French monarchy collapsed.

The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture Old Regime Europe 1660 1789 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Represenational Culture
Chapter 1: Louis XIV and Versailles
Chapter 2: The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy
Chapter 3: The Status of the Artist
Part II: The Rise of the Public Sphere
Chapter 4: Communications
From Versailles to Paris
The Public
Literacy and Education
Economic Expansion
Urbanization
Travelling and the Post
The Reading Revolution
Chapter 5: Markets
Reading and Readers
The Novel
Periodicals and Newspapers
Part III – Revolution
Chapter 6: The rise of the Nation
From Person to Concept: ‘The King is Dead, Long Live the State!’
The Prussian Way
The Birth of German Nationalism
Chapter 7: The British Way
Handel, the Public Sphere, and the English Nation
The Rise of English National Identity
Protestantism
The Second Hundred Years War
Commerce
Liberty and Patriotism
George III: The Political Education of a Patriot King
Conclusion
Chapter 8: The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
The Musical Origins
The Crisis of Legitimation
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the Absolute Monarchy
Chapter 9: The Power of Culture

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