Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and significant events of the first era in which modernity is recognisable but provides the essential background to the revolutionary period that followed.

Olwen Hufton The author is a Leverhulme Professor of History at Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She was Professor of History at Reading University until 1987 when she became William Kenan Professor of History at Harvard, a post which she held until 1991. From 1991 to 1997 Olwen Hufton was a Professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.

Author's note

vi

Introduction

1

(4)

Part I Traditional Structures and the Forces of Change

5

(96)

Social and Economic Developments

7

(21)

The World of Privilege

28

(18)

The World of Ideas

46

(21)

Armies, Interests and Conflict

67

(34)

Part II Central and Eastern Europe

101

(78)

The Holy Roman Empire

103

(9)

The Habsburg Lands

112

(25)

Prussia

137

(20)

Russia

157

(22)

Part III The Western World

179

(78)

Vanished Supremacies: The Iberian Peninsula

181

(20)

The United Provinces

201

(11)

France of the Old Regime

212

(35)

The Old Order Changeth

247

(10)

Conclusion

257

(9)

Select Bibliography

266

(12)

Index

278

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