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Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World
The early modern period has long been seen as an age of great importance in the development of foreign relations. The rise of resident embassies, the development of institutions dedicated to diplomatic activity, and the growth of state bureaucracies were all components in the rise of recognisably modern diplomacy. This was an 'age of secretaries' that assigned important roles in the diplomatic process to a variety of state secretaries, chancellors and ministers. Bringing together case studies drawn from across Europe and Asia, and written by leading scholars in their fields, this collection offers a novel and genuinely trans-regional take on the emergence of modern inter-state relations.
Woldemar Von Löwenstern
Woldemar von Löwenstern, a Baltic German Russian Cavalry officer, states in the course of his memoirs, “I am not writing a history of the war...that is sufficiently known from every history of the war of 1812.” In his memoirs he is reliving his own personal successes, frustrations, failures, and tragedies from 1790 to 1815, and desires his readers to join him on his journey, as he prepares for cavalry service, leaves that service, marries and runs estates in Estonia, but then takes his ill wife to Vienna seeking a cure, where she dies as Napoleon is invading the city. He rejoins the Russian army and at one point is sent to Moscow. When he arrives there, he finds his dispatch is an order for his arrest. His deportment saves him so he returns to the army as it retreats to Moscow and follows Napoleon until Paris. He describes skirmishes and battles but more importantly the lodgings from dirty straw to noble luxury and the people he meets from Catherine the Great to boiler of soap.
Gustav III:s spioner
»Vilka ohyggliga människor! De är Europas orangutanger. Hur är det möjligt att med så mycket behag och älskvärdhet förena så utstuderad vildhet?» Orden är Gustav III:s. Det franska folket hade stormat Bastiljen och hotade det rojalistiska väldet i Frankrike. För den svenske kungen representerade revolutionen också undergången för den goda smaken och den aristokratiska förfiningen. Gustav III skissade fram storslagna planer på att invadera fransk mark. Avsikten var inte att bara rädda drottning Marie-Antoinette och kung Ludvig XVI, utan att avstyra hela revolutionen. 1791 sändes de två svenska officerarna König och von Fieandt till Frankrike för att kartlägga området mellan Paris och Le Havre, som en förberedelse av den väpnade intervention kungen planerade. Målet var att erövra Paris. Gustav III:s spioner bygger bland annat på Königs minnesanteckningar som finns bevarade på Riksarkivet. Författare är Thorsten Sandberg, fil kand i historia och journalist. Han har bland annat medverkat under många år som skribent i tidskriften Populär Historia.
Baron Thugut and Austria's Response to the French Revolution
Here is the first political biography of Baron Franz Maria Thugut, the principal Austrian opponent of the French Revolution. This work explains Thugut's role as the first Austrian statesman seriously to confront the Revolution. In the process it makes significant revisions in the conventional picture of the international system of the period. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Riksradet och Fältmarkskalken m.m. Grefve Fredrik Axel von Fersens Historiska Skrifter
Oförändrat nytryck av originalutgåvan från 1869.
America in Italy
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Axel Körner shows how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, but he focuses on the important distinction that while European interest in developments across the Atlantic was keen, this attention was not blind admiration. Rather, America became a sounding board for the critical assessment of societal changes at home. Many Italians did not think the United States had lessons to teach them and often concluded that life across t...
The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia
For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the repertoire from his day until ours. What do we need to know now in order to understand Haydn and his music? With over eighty entries focused on ideas and seven longer thematic essays to bring these together, this distinctive and richly illustrated encyclopedia offers a new perspective on Haydn and the many cultural contexts in which he worked and left his indelible mark during the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributions from sixty-seven scholars and performers in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, capture the vitality of Haydn studies today - its variety of perspectives and methods - and ultimately inspire further exploration of one of western music's most innovative and influential composers.
