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Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861
David E. Barclay
出版
Clarendon Press
, 1995
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Royalty
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Germany
History / Modern / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry
ISBN
0198204302
9780198204305
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nO4NAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is the first full-scale study in English of the reign of Frederick William IV, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861, and arguably the most important German monarch in the century between the death of Frederick the Great and the accession of William II. Although Frederick William has long been criticized as a Romantic reactionary who was utterly out of touch with his times, this study reaches different conclusions, arguing that he was in fact a modern, and in many ways, 'successful' monarch. The book is not a biography in the traditional sense. Rather, it focuses on the structures, institutions, and transformations of the monarchical system in Prussia during a time of revolutionary change. It thus represents a contribution to our understanding of the structures of the nineteenth-century European state, and the strategies by which conservative elites were able to adjust themselves to new circumstances.