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Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia
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Author : William Fiddian Reddaway
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-03
Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia written by William Fiddian Reddaway and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with History categories.
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Author : William F. Reddaway
language : en
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Release Date : 1935
Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia written by William F. Reddaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.
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Author : W. F. Reddaway
language : en
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Release Date : 2006-11
Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia written by W. F. Reddaway and has been published by Hesperides Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with History categories.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Frederick The Great
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Author : Tim Blanning
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-24
Frederick The Great written by Tim Blanning and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early in his reign he was already a legendary figure - fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim Blanning's brilliant new biography recreates a remarkable era, a world which would be swept away shortly after Frederick's death by the French Revolution. Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick's extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime's obsession with the 18th century to create a work that is in many ways the summation of all that he has learned in his own rich and various career. Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever since: an inspiration, a threat, an impossible ideal - Blanning at last allows us to understand him in his own time.
Frederick The Great
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Author : Tim Blanning
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Frederick The Great written by Tim Blanning and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered territories, a minor Germanic backwater. By the end of his reign, the much larger and consolidated Prussia ranked among the continent’s great powers. In this magisterial biography, award-winning historian Tim Blanning gives us an intimate, in-depth portrait of a king who dominated the political, military, and cultural life of Europe half a century before Napoleon. A brilliant, ambitious, sometimes ruthless monarch, Frederick was a man of immense contradictions. This consummate conqueror was also an ardent patron of the arts who attracted painters, architects, musicians, playwrights, and intellectuals to his court. Like his fellow autocrat Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick was captivated by the ideals of the Enlightenment—for many years he kept up lively correspondence with Voltaire and other leading thinkers of the age. Yet, like Catherine, Frederick drew the line when it came to implementing Enlightenment principles that might curtail his royal authority. Frederick’s terrifying father instilled in him a stern military discipline that would make the future king one of the most fearsome battlefield commanders of his day, while deriding as effeminate his son’s passion for modern ideas and fine art. Frederick, driven to surpass his father’s legacy, challenged the dominant German-speaking powers, including Saxony, Bavaria, and the Habsburg Monarchy. It was an audacious foreign policy gambit, one at which Frederick, against the expectations of his rivals, succeeded. In examining Frederick’s private life, Blanning also carefully considers the long-debated question of Frederick’s sexuality, finding evidence that Frederick lavished gifts on his male friends and maintained homosexual relationships throughout his life, while limiting contact with his estranged, unloved queen to visits that were few and far between. The story of one man’s life and the complete political and cultural transformation of a nation, Tim Blanning’s sweeping biography takes readers inside the mind of the monarch, giving us a fresh understanding of Frederick the Great’s remarkable reign. Praise for Frederick the Great “Writing Frederick’s biography . . . requires a diverse set of skills: expertise in eighteenth-century diplomatic and military history, including the intricacies of the Holy Roman Empire; a familiarity with the music, architecture and intellectual traditions of Northern Europe; and, not least, a profound sense of human psychology, the better to grasp the makeup of this complex and tormented man. Fortunately, Tim Blanning . . . has all of these skills in abundance.”—The Wall Street Journal “At once scholarly and highly readable . . . [Blanning] has given us a superb portrait of an enlightened despot, equally at home on the battlefield and in the opera house, both utterly ruthless and culturally refined.”—Commentary “Blanning, in clear thinking and prose, investigates all aspects of Frederick’s personality and reign. . . . The last word on this significant king, for years to come.”—Booklist (starred review) “Masterly . . . Blanning brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history.”—The Telegraph (five stars) “A supremely nuanced account . . . This biography finds [Blanning] at the height of his powers.”—Literary Review
Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia
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Author : William Fiddian Reddaway
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Frederick The Great And The Rise Of Prussia written by William Fiddian Reddaway and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PROBLEM OF 174O IN his instructions for the education of his successor, Frederick prescribed a thorough course of European history from the time of the Emperor Charles V. (1519-1556) to his own reign. This had been the favourite study of his own youth, so that at his accession he realised to the full that modern Europe owed little of its political contour to chance, but much to the aspirations and struggles of the several states during the last two centuries. For modern Europe was no older than Charles V. Right through the Middle Ages the Christian world maintained that supreme authority, like truth, ought to be one, and that every Christian should look up to the Emperor in matters temporal as he looked up to the Pope in matters spiritual. On the secular side, however, this theory had crumbled beneath its own weight. Even a Charlemagne could not really rule the world. As the various races of mankind who lived in England, France, Spain, and Scandinavia gradually came under the sway of a few national rulers, the Emperor dwindled into a dignified president of German princes. His lordship of the world survived only in distracting claims to rule more widely and more exclusively than his attenuated power could warrant. Two sharp shocks heralded modern times. First Columbus bestowed upon his masters, the Kings of Spain, a new world which had never heard of Pope and Emperor and which the Emperor at least did not pretend to sway. Then Luther, wrestling blindly with the papacy, shattered the central pillar of the mediaeval world, and modern history, the biography of a group of independent states, began. These states, however, did not enjoy unchallenged independence. Each had to work out its own religious settlement, and--if it embraced the...
Studies In The Economic Policy Of Frederick The Great
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Author : W.O. Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Studies In The Economic Policy Of Frederick The Great written by W.O. Henderson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy. In this series of essays Dr. Henderson deals with various aspects of the Prussian economy in Frederick the Great’s reign. He describes Frederick’s commercial policy, the reconstruction of Prussia after the Seven Years War and the state of the Prussian economy in 1780’s, showing that "alone among his contemporaries Frederick left his country with a far more flourishing economy than it had been when he ascended the throne". The role of the private entrepreneur in Prussia at this time is illustrated by surveys of the careers of the merchants Splitgerber and Gotzkowsky who promoted the expansion of Prussia’s armament, silk and porcelain industries. This book was first published in 1963.
History Of Friedrich Ii Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
History Of Friedrich Ii Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great written by Thomas Carlyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
History Of Friedrich The Second Called Frederick The Great
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
History Of Friedrich The Second Called Frederick The Great written by Thomas Carlyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Prussia (Germany) categories.
History Of Friedrich Ii Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-03-25
History Of Friedrich Ii Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great written by Thomas Carlyle and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.