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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe - Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (Hardcover)
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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe - Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in European History
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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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