The European Nobilities

Western and Southern Europe
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-3374-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Essays with national approaches provide unique coverage of Europe's Old Regime nobilities, from Britain to Russia and from Sweden to Portugal, framed by a substantial comparative editorial introduction and concluded by a survey of the fate of the nobilities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps List of Tables Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary of Technical Terms Introduction: The Consolidation of Noble Power in Europe, c. 1600-1800; H.Scott & Christopher Storrs The British Nobility, 1660-1800; John Cannon The Dutch Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; J.L.Price The French Nobility, 1610-1715; Roger Mettam The French Nobility, 1715-1789; Julian Swann The Nobility in Spain, 1600-1800; I.A.A.Thompson Nobility and Aristocracy in Ancien Régime Portugal (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries); Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro The Italian Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Claudio Donati Guides to Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN CANNON Professor Emeritus at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK CLAUDIO DONATI Professor of Early Modern Italian History at the Università Statale di Milano, Italy ROGER METTAM Reader Emeritus in Modern History in the University of London, UK NUNO GONÇALO MONTEIRO Professor in the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal J.L. PRICE Reader in History at the University of Hull, UK JULIAN SWANN Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER STORRS Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Dundee, UK I.A.A. THOMPSON University Professorial Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Keele, UK.