[PDF] Historians And Eighteenth Century Europe eBook

Author : Peter Björn Kerber
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606065254

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Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. These occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Little explored by scholars, these paintings stand out by virtue of their extraordinary artistic quality, vibrant atmosphere, and historical interest. They are imbued with a sense of occasion, even drama, and were often commissioned by or for rulers, princes, and ambassadors as records of significant events in which they participated. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study—in any language—of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Björn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists who produced them and the patrons who commissioned them, as well as for their contemporary viewers. This vital book represents a major contribution to the field of view painting studies and will be an essential resource for scholars and enthusiasts.

Author : M.S. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317879643

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For 1st and 2nd year undergraduate courses in Modern European History in departments of history. Also, higher level courses on enlightenment.This book provides a wide-ranging account and discussion of the history of Europe from 1713-1789. As well as political events, problems and institutions, it looks at the economic life of the continent, social structures and problems and intellectual and religious life. It also covers all aspects of Europe's relations with the rest of the world during a key period in European history.

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 111873002X

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This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe

Author : Christine Adams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271026091

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This volume brings together eight essays (all but one previously unpublished) that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture in eighteenth-century France. Divided into three sections, the chapters map out current research paths in social, cultural, and political history. The authors engage the most heated subjects of debate in the field today, including the changing nature of political life in the age of Enlightenment, the role of public opinion in undermining absolutism, and the impact of gender on social relationships and political language in the late eighteenth century. They demonstrate a marked interest in the lives of ordinary and humble French people, finding that exclusion from the main corridors of power fostered cunning and resourcefulness, not political indifference or ignorance. The articles encompass the Old Regime and the revolutionary era without falling into the teleological trap of using the former as the backdrop for the events of 1789. On the contrary, many of the authors consciously avoid this bias by investigating the Old Regime in its own right or by consciously linking the pre- and postrevolutionary eras. This decision alone marks an important turning of the tide. By establishing a dialogue between the Old Regime and the revolution, this volume implicitly pays homage to those historians who insist on the structural continuities that underlay the rupture of 1789. Contributors are Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, and Jack Censer.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Europe
ISBN :

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Offers a thematic account of Europe, which includes treatment of Britain as a European country, from 1700 until the outbreak of the French Revolution. In its wide-ranging coverage of this period, it explores social, cultural and economic topics as well as giving clear analysis of the political events. It opens with a discussion of the 'hostile environment' and, against the startlingly grim background of disease and death, it goes on to discuss the scope and variety of the economy, commerce and society. It also looks at the role of towns, the Church, religion, medicine and culture, and so builds up a rich picture of life in 'ancien régime' Europe.

Author : George F. E. Rudé
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674269217

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Europe in the Eighteenth Century is a social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change.

Author : James Harvey Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Europe
ISBN :

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History of Europe since the 18th century in the growth of empires, conflicts and wars in Europe, social and economic development, revolutions, and growth of the nation state.