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Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789
Olwen Hufton
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Description for Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789
Paperback. The new edition of this volume provides readers with an introduction to a key period in modern European history. The new edition has been updated in the light of recent scholarship and includes a fully revised bibliography. Series: Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe S. Num Pages: 296 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
The new edition of this classic book provides readers with an introduction to a key period in modern European history. The second edition has been updated in the light of recent scholarship and includes a fully revised bibliography.In the eighteenth century the claims of monarchs and even privileged aristocracies to unquestioned obedience and of the Church to a monopoly of truth were challenged by an increasingly secular and literate society. Reason, the rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary government and increased tolerance shaped discourses of opposition. A growing population pressing on food supplies and the fiscal demands of ... Read more
The new edition of this classic book provides readers with an introduction to a key period in modern European history. The second edition has been updated in the light of recent scholarship and includes a fully revised bibliography.In the eighteenth century the claims of monarchs and even privileged aristocracies to unquestioned obedience and of the Church to a monopoly of truth were challenged by an increasingly secular and literate society. Reason, the rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary government and increased tolerance shaped discourses of opposition. A growing population pressing on food supplies and the fiscal demands of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe S.
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631213819
SKU
V9780631213819
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About Olwen Hufton
Olwen Hufton The author is a Leverhulme Professor of History at Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She was Professor of History at Reading University until 1987 when she became William Kenan Professor of History at Harvard, a post which she held until 1991. From 1991 to 1997 Olwen Hufton was a Professor in the Department ... Read more
Reviews for Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789
Review of the Previous Edition: It is an integrated view set out by a historian of great learning, acumen and distinction. No one teaching or learning about the eighteenth century should neglect it. London Review of Books Review of the Second Edition: Hufton follows a historiographic paradigm which results in her writing a truly European ... Read more