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EUROPE
PRIVILEGE AND PROTEST, 1730-1789

By:

Olwen Hufton

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ISBN 10:

0631215131

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

17 November, 2000

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Series:

Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe S.

Pages:

296

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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.

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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 governments with expansionist ambitions in America, Asia or central and eastern Europe contributed to confrontation and dissent.Professor Hufton provides a fascinating account of the undermining of an archaic social order, top heavy with courts, bureaucracies and standing armies in different European contexts. She demonstrates how privilege was countered with protests which provoked constitutional crises and generated popular violence precipitating Europe into an age of revolution.

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