Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199693078
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 237x162x45 mm
- Weight 1259 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black and white maps 0
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Short description:
In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume II extends from the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich.
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Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a new interpretation of the development of German-speaking central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire or German Reich, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to its dissolution in 1806 after the turmoil of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Going against the notion that this was a long period of decline, Joachim Whaley shows how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and Thirty Years War, and assesses the impact of international developments on the Reich. Central themes are the tension between Habsburg aspirations to create a German monarchy and the desire of the German princes and cities to maintain their traditional rights, and how the Reich developed the functions of a state during this period.
The first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, it also illuminates the development of the German territories subordinate to the Reich. Whaley explores the implications of the Reformation and subsequent religious reform movements, both Protestant and Catholic, and the Enlightenment for the government of both secular and ecclesiastical principalities, the minor territories of counts and knights and the cities. The Reich and the territories formed a coherent and workable system and, as a polity, the Reich developed its own distinctive political culture and traditions of German patriotism over the early modern period.
Whaley explains the development of the Holy Roman Empire as an early modern polity and illuminates the evolution of the several hundred German territories within it. He gives a rich account of topics such as the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, Pietism and baroque Catholicism, the Aufklärung or German Enlightenment and the impact on the Empire and its territories of the French Revolution and Napoleon. It includes consideration of language, cultural aspects and religious and intellectual movements. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire engages with all the major debates among both German and English-speaking historians about early modern German history over the last sixty years and offers a striking new interpretation of this important period.
Volume II starts with the end of the Thirty Years War and extends to the dissolution of the Reich
Whaley sees the Reich as a continually reforming, diverse but legally ordered polity, rather than some kind of bizarre monstrosity or collective fiction. His two volumes are exceptionally well written and highly nuanced and reflect the latest scholarship. Indeed, they represent a huge personal achievementthey will provide a standard of scholarship against which all future works will be measured.
Table of Contents:
Preface to Volume II
I. Reconstruction and Resurgence 1648-1705: the Reich under Ferdinand III and Leopold I
Historians and the Reich after the Thirty Years War
The Last Years of Ferdinand III: Western Leagues and Northern Wars
From Ferdinand III to Leopold I
Leopold I and his Foreign Enemies
A New Turkish Threat
Renewed Conflict with France
The Emperor, the Perpetual Reichstag, the Kreise, and Imperial Justice
Imperial Networks: the Reichskirche and the Imperial Cities
The Imperial Court at Vienna and Dynastic Elevations in the Reich
The Nature of the Reich: Projects and Culture
Interpretations of the Leopoldine Reic
II. Consolidation and Crisis 1705-1740: the Reich under Joseph I and Charles VI
Two Wars and Three Emperors
Leopold I, Joseph I, and the War of Spanish Succession
Joseph I and the Government of the Reich
Charles VI: Fruition or Decline?
Conflicting Priorities: c.1714 - c.1730
Charles VI and the Government of the Reich
The Return of Confessional Politics?
The Problem of the Austrian Succession
The Ebb of Imperial Power 1733-40?
The Reich in Print
III. The German Territories, c. 1648-c.1740
An Age of Absolutism?
Contemporary Perceptions: From Reconstruction to Early Enlightenment
Sonderwege: the Smaller Territories
Sonderwege: Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia
The Revival of the Court and the Development of Territorial Government
The Court: its Culture, its Functions, and its Critics
The Development of Military Power
Princes and Estates
An Oppressed Peasantry?
Government and Society
Government and Economic Development
Public and Private Enterprise
Christian Polities: Baroque Catholicism
Christian Polities: the Territories of the Reichskirche
Christian Polities: Protestant Orthodoxy and Renewal
From Coexistence to Toleration?
Enlightenment and Patriotism
IV. Decline or Maturity? The Reich from Charles VII to Leopold II, c. 1740-1792
Three Emperors and a King
Silesian Wars, 1740-1763
Managing the Reich without the Habsburgs: Charles VII (1742-45)
The Return of the Habsburgs: Francis I (1745-1765)
The Reich without Enemies? Germany and Europe 1763-1792
Renewal: Joseph II 1765-c.1776
The Great Reform Debate: Joseph II c. 1778-1790
Restoration: Leopold II 1790-92
Central and Intermediate Institutions of the Reich
The Reich, the Public Sphere, and the Nation
V. The German Territories in the Later Eighteenth Century
Enlightenment and the Problem of Reform
Crisis and Opportunity
The Challenge of the Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Aufklärung
Aufklärung and Government
Cameralism, Physiocracy, and the Provisioning of Society
Economic Policy: Manufactures, Guilds, Welfare, and Taxation
Administration, Law, and Justice
Education and Toleration
Courts and Culture
The Impact of Reform: Immunity against Revolution?
VI. War and Dissolution: the Reich 1792-1806
Ruptures and Continuities
The Reich in the Revolutionary Wars
Reverberations of the French Revolution: Unrest and Uprisings
Reverberations of the French Revolution: Intellectuals
Schemes for the Reform of the Reich in the 1790s
The Peace of Lunéville (1801) and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluß (1803)
The Transformation of the Reich 1803-05
Final Attempts at Reform and the Dissolution of the Reich 1806
VII. Conclusion
Glossary
A Note on Terminology and Usage
A Note on maps and other online resources
Abbreviations
Bibliography
