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Author Blanning, T. C. W

Title Joseph II / T.C.W. Blanning
Published London ; New York : Longman, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : map
Series Profiles in power
Profiles in power (London, England)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Dedication; CHAPTER 1 Joseph II and the Habsburg Inheritance; Assets; Problems; CHAPTER 2 Joseph II, Maria Theresa and Josephism; From empire to state; The diplomatic revolution; The end of the baroque; Haugwitz and domestic reform; Kaunitz and domestic reform; Education; Jansenism; Church and state; Maria Theresa; The co-regency; CHAPTER 3 Joseph II and the Enlightened State; The first servant of the state; Autocracy and bureaucracy; Education; Germanisation; Toleration; The economy; Social reform; Crime and punishment
Enlightened absolutismCHAPTER 4 Joseph II and the Privileged Orders; The church; The nobility; The peasantry; Hungary and Belgium; CHAPTER 5 Joseph II and the Great Powers; The army and militarism; The co-regency; Joseph II and the Russian alliance; Joseph II and the Dutch; Bavaria again; The Holy Roman Empire; Joseph II and the Great Powers; CHAPTER 6 Joseph II and the Crisis of the Habsburg Monarchy; Censorship; The public sphere; Absolutism and enlightenment; Belgium; The war against the Turks; Back from the brink; Celebration and death; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chronology; Map; Index
Summary Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the ""Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. Professor Blanning's brilliant short study, based on extensive archival research, offers a history of the Habsburg monarchy in the eighteenth century, as well as a revaluation of the emperor's complex per
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790.
SUBJECT Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790 fast
Joseph (Römisch-Deutsches Reich, Kaiser, II.) swd
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Kings and rulers
Politics and government
Josephinismus
Habsburgse Huis.
SUBJECT Austria -- Politics and government -- 1740-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009729
Austria -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Subject Austria
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 93029516
ISBN 9781317899655
1317899652
9781315846033
1315846039
Other Titles Joseph der Zweite
Joseph 2