The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 8, The American and French Revolutions, 1763-93Elliot H. Goodwin CUP Archive, 01.01.1965 - 772 Seiten This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Maratha wars pages 2213 | 3 |
The administration of trade and industry under the ancien régime pages 5734 | 4 |
The divergent policies of France and Spain in the American War of Independence | 5 |
Scientific societies academies and journals 1357 | 7 |
The Declaration of Independence | 11 |
The AustroRussian alliance of 1781 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea | 13 |
Lombardy and Tuscany as centres of administrative and economic reform | 19 |
The limited success of local government and agrarian reform | 375 |
THE ITALIAN STATES | 387 |
CHAPTER XIV | 397 |
Charles IIIs administrative reforms in South America and the adoption of | 403 |
R LEWITTER Fellow of Christs College and Professor of Slavonic Studies | 408 |
American and British contraband trade in the Caribbean and South America | 409 |
Toussaint Louverture and the occupation of Spanish Santo Domingo | 418 |
The continuing need for administrative and financial reconstruction in | 425 |
CHAPTER II | 25 |
Progress in technology 1378 | 40 |
Old orthodoxies the Enlightenment and the growth of preRomanticism | 56 |
Discours sur lInégalité 1755 | 62 |
Malthus distinction between the preventive and positive checks on popula | 74 |
The administration and reform of the indirect and direct taxes 57880 | 80 |
CHAPTER IV | 81 |
The effects of epidemics war and famine | 90 |
Mozarts youthful performances | 91 |
The Gothic revival | 97 |
The Picturesque movement and English landscape gardening | 108 |
N Ledoux and E L Boullée as Neoclassical architects | 134 |
CHAPTER VI | 143 |
The role of the universities in Scotland North America and Germany 14950 | 155 |
The biological trend in French educational theory 1567 | 161 |
Rousseaus educational theory 1635 | 173 |
The incidence of disease page | 178 |
The failure to reform French officer structurethe rivalry between la plume | 184 |
Comparative statistics of European navies in 1792 | 190 |
Tactical use of irregular light infantry 1945 | 198 |
Cartography and the rise of General Staffs 2012 | 205 |
National militias and armies of reserve 21011 | 212 |
CHAPTER VIII | 218 |
Pitts India Act 1784 | 223 |
Weakening of the Maratha confederacy 2289 | 229 |
The defeat of Joseph IIs plans for the opening of the Scheldt and the exchange | 238 |
RELATIONS WITH AFRICA | 243 |
The search for a new economic relationship between Europe and Africathe | 250 |
The causes of lower mortality in the second half of the eighteenth century still | 256 |
Catherine IIs Greek project and the RussoTurkish war of 1787 | 263 |
The Prussian attitude to constitutional change in Poland and the AustroPrussian | 264 |
CHAPTER X | 279 |
TRADE | 291 |
RUSSIA | 306 |
Russia from Peter the Great to Catherine II | 313 |
The deficiencies of the British naval signalling system 1756 | 316 |
of Armed Neutrality | 326 |
CHAPTER XII | 333 |
Haydns musical predecessors | 339 |
The insurrection of Kosciuszko 1794 | 356 |
The central agencies of reformthe Council of Castile the ministers and the Junta | 366 |
The historical importance of Glucks Orfeo 1762 | 440 |
The drafting of the state constitutions | 462 |
at Philadelphia | 470 |
CHAPTER XVII | 480 |
The outbreak of hostilities and the appointment of Washington as commanderin | 487 |
The treason of Benedict Arnold and the mutinies of the Pennsylvania and | 502 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 509 |
The emergent polyglot nationalism of colonial America | 516 |
Frontier radicalism in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas 176375 | 522 |
and the administration of Bute | 537 |
The collection of indirect and direct taxes under the ancien régime 5802 | 583 |
The fiscal and constitutional problems of Imperial defence in North America | 584 |
The rightwing diagnosis of the period of the Emigration and its links with | 588 |
Fundamental reforms in the system of auditing and accounting 176393 58990 | 591 |
The enlightened bureaucracy of Louis XV and its limited horizons 5923 | 598 |
The changing social structure under the ancien régime 6012 | 608 |
Turgots initial financial measures 6089 | 614 |
40I | 618 |
The Napoleonic Legend and the bias of patriotism | 623 |
Lamartines political romanceLHistoire des Girondins 1847 | 634 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 653 |
The cahiers de doléance of the separate orders | 667 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 680 |
Administrative decentralisation and the new system of elected local authorities 6824 | 687 |
The massacre of the Champ de Mars and the schism in the Jacobin club | 693 |
The Brissotin war policy | 699 |
The intervention of the Parisian sections and the provincial fédérés 7034 | 707 |
Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America | 714 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
administration alliance American American Revolution ancien régime army Assembly attack attempt Austria became bourgeoisie Britain British Catherine church classes clergy colonies commercial Congress constitution court demand economic eighteenth century empire England English Enlightenment established Estates Europe European exports favour feudal force foreign France French French Revolution frontier German Habsburg Haydn ideas imperial important increased independence Indian industry influence interest Jansenists Joseph Joseph II king land later legislation London Louis Louis XVI ment military ministers ministry monarchy movement Mozart nature naval navy NCMH VIII nobility officers organisation Paris parlements Parliament peace peasants period philosophes Physiocrats Pitt Poland political population principles privileged produced provinces reform revenue Revolution revolutionary Rousseau royal Russia Seven Years War ships social society Spain Spanish St Petersburg szlachta territory theory Third Estate tion trade treaty troops Vienna