Germany in the Age of Absolutism

Reconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.

Rudolf Vierhaus (Author), Jonathan B. Knudsen (Translated by)

9780521339360, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 February 1989

188 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.413 kg

'I view Vierhaus's survey not only to be extraordinarily persuasive but in many ways brilliant and unusually stimulating.' Historische Zeitschrift

Rudolf Vierhaus's work is much more than a political history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War: His study reconstructs the historical structures that marked this age. He examines economic developments, the social system, and cultural life, even as he continues to pay close attention to Germany's political organization, its war, and political conflicts. German history is presented within both the diverse pattern of its regional life and the larger European context, in order to restore a full analytical complexity to the age of absolutism.

Preface
Introduction
1. Economic development
2. Society
3. Cultural life
4. Political organization
5. Wars, Crises, and Conflicts
Conclusion
Chronology
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]