European Civilization, 1648-1945

Yale,, Fall 2008 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - Absolutism and the State - Dutch and British Exceptionalism - Peter the Great - The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere - Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution - Napoleon - Industrial Revolutions - Middle Classes - Popular Protest - Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain - Nineteenth-Century Cities - Nationalism - Radicals - Imperialists and Boy Scouts - The Coming of the Great War - War in the Trenches - Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters) - The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution - Successor States of Eastern Europe - Stalinism - Fascists - Collaboration and Resistance in World War II - The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges

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Lecture 2: Absolutism and the State

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European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202)The rise of absolutism in Europe must be understood in the context of insecurity attending the religious wars of the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Thirty Years War in particular. Faced with the unprecedented brutality and devastation of these conflicts, European nobles and landowners were increasingly willing to surrender their independence to the authority of a single, all-powerful monarch in return for guaranteed protection. Among the consequences of this consolidation of state power were the formation of large standing armies and bureaucratic systems, the curtailment of municipal privileges, and the birth of international law.0000 - Chapter 1. The Rise of Absolutism in the Continental States of Europe 1126 - Chapter 2. Reaction against War Absolutism as Reassertion of Order 2156 - Chapter 3. The Shape of Government in an Absolute State Nobles and Bureaucrats 2650 - Chapter 4. The Arm of the Absolute State The Rise of Large Standing Armies3458 - Chapter 5. Representations of the Absolutism in Art and Literature Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educoursesThis course was recorded in Fall 2008.