The eighteenth century : Europe in the age of enlightenment
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The eighteenth century : Europe in the age of enlightenment
Classmark: Bedford Collection E156
Creator(s): Cobban, Alfred
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication city: New York
Date(s): [1969]
Language: English
Size and medium: 360 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731576
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019943995805181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-347), and index.
I. The Pattern of Government -- Kings, courts, and parliaments from 1660 to the French Revolution / Alfred Cobban; Church and state ; The fall of the Jesuits ; Bourbon monarchies ; The House of Habsburg ; Aristocracy in Sweden and Poland ; Prussian despotism ; The British solution -- II. The Architectural Setting: Royalty, religion and the urban background / Sir John Summerson ; Rococo and rationalism ; Three royal palaces ; The flowering of German Baroque ; A choice of styles ; 'Noble simplicity' ; Archaeology, abstraction and the exotic -- III. The Technological Imperative: scientific discoveries in the service of man / W.H.G. Armytage ; The 'common market' of science ; Groping towards evolution ; 'The great ocean of truth' ; The progress of the machine ; On the earth and in the sky ; Illuninati -- IV. Countryside and Industry: The economics of an age of change / D.C. Coleman ; Tradition and improvement ; Population and produce ; Trades and crafts ; The rise of the factory ; The key to
economic growth -- V. Europe Overseas: Slavery, commerce and empire / K.G. Davies ; The ocean-routes ; Slave trade ; Settlers in the New World ; Government at a distance ; Christianity overseas ; Transformations of empire ; Moral purposes and noble savages
VI. War on a New Scale: Professionalism in armies, navies and diplomacy / J.R. Western; Were foreign policies 'national'? ; Weapons and tactics - on land and at sea ; Diplomacy and neutrality ; Towards Napoleonic warfare -- VII. Taste and Patronage: The role of the artist in society / L.D. Ettlinger ; The two faces of 18th-century art ; 'Fêtes galantes' ; Art and morality ; Education through art ; 'Imitation of the ancients' ; Art and politics -- VIII. The Enlightenment: Free inquiry and the world of ideas / Robert Shackleton ; The attack on prejudice ; 'The footsteps of human reason' ; Forming a party ; Pares, the intellectual battlefield ; The beginnings of the encyclopédia ; Atheists in the drawing-room -- IX. The Rise of the People: Life and death among the poor / Olwen H. Hufton ; A century of suffering ; The plague relents ; 'The common sort' ; Women and children ; The brink of ruin ; The 'ideal' poor ; The Enlightenment looks at poverty ; Charity schools -- X. Epilogue: Reform
and Revolution: The end of the Ancien Régime ; The rights of man ; Crime and punishment ; 'Natural forces' ; Revolutions that failed ; Unrest in France ; Mounting tension ; The people in power -- Postscript: On Music / Alfred Cobban -- Map of Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E156: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ST/2.
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