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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe

Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850

By: William D. Godsey, Jr

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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe

Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850

By: William D. Godsey, Jr

This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world came to an end with the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in 1792. Quite apart from the social, economic and political dislocations and loss, the era from 1789 to 1815 also meant a cultural reorientation for the nobility. William D. Godsey, Jr here explores how nobles in post-revolutionary Germany gradually abandoned their old self-understanding and assimilated with the new cultural 'nation' while aristocrats in the Habsburg Empire, which had taken in many emigres from Mainz, moved instead towards supranationalism. This is a major contribution to debates about the relationship between identity, cultural nationalism, supranationalism and religion in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.

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320

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456091

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9781139456098

Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

By: William Doyle

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Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

By: William Doyle

This engaging introduction shows how ideas of aristocracy originated in ancient times, were transformed in the middle ages, and have only fallen apart over the last two centuries.

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Oxford University Press

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0199206783

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9780199206780

Aristocratic Redoubt

The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War

By: William D. Godsey

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Aristocratic Redoubt

The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War

By: William D. Godsey

Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period.

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332

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Purdue University Press

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1557531404

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9781557531407

The Sinews of Habsburg Power

Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820

By: William D. Godsey

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The Sinews of Habsburg Power

Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820

By: William D. Godsey

The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to as many as half a million in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Habsburg monarchy participated in shifting international constellations of rivalry from western Europe to the Near East and in some two dozen, partly overlapping armed conflicts. Raising forces of such magnitude constituted a central task of Habsburg government, one that ultimately required the cooperation of society and its elites. The monarchy's composite-territorial structures in the guise of the Lower Austrian Estates -- a leading representative body and privileged corps -- formed a vital, if changing, element underlying Habsburg international success and resilience. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy below the river Enns (the historic designation of Lower Austria) was geographically, politically, and financially a key Habsburg possession. Fiscal-military exigency induced the Estates to take part in new and evolving arrangements of power that served the purposes of government; in turn the Estates were able in previously little-understood ways and within narrowing boundaries to preserve vital interests in a changing world. The Estates survived because they were necessary, not only thanks to their increasing financial potency, but also because they offered a politically viable way of exacting ever-larger quantities of money, men, and other resources from local society. These circumstances would persist as ruling became more regularized, formalized, and homogenized, and as the very understanding of the Estates as a social and political phenomenon was evolving.

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481

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Oxford University Press

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0198809395

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9780198809395

Is There a God in Health Care?

Toward a New Spirituality of Medicine

By: William F. Haynes Jr.,Geffrey B. Kelly

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Is There a God in Health Care?

Toward a New Spirituality of Medicine

By: William F. Haynes Jr.,Geffrey B. Kelly

In this book, a physician, well-known for praying with his patients, and an award-winning professor of theology share their insights on how religious faith can provide help in the healing process of today's health care ministry. The authors avoid rehashing analytical theories on suffering and the "miracles" of healing they may have seen, instead examining how personal faith can enhance the immune system, how a spiritual outlook can help bear the burden of suffering and grief, and how forbearance and forgiveness are crucial in maintaining a healthy attitude toward life.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725228629

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9781725228627

Book's by William D. Godsey, Jr

Nobles and Nation in Central Europe

Nobles and Nation in Central Europe

Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

Aristocratic Redoubt

Aristocratic Redoubt

The Sinews of Habsburg Power

The Sinews of Habsburg Power

Is There a God in Health Care?

Is There a God in Health Care?

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