Eastern & Western History, Thought & Culture, 1600-1815This work aims to provide a broad, integrated and reasonably comprehensive survey of political economic, cultural and social developments of the 17th and 18th centuries in the eastern and western worlds. |
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... reforms and patronage of literature and the fine arts , Pombal had a gigantic bronze equestrian statute of the king ( designed by Joachim Machado de Castro [ 1731-1822 ] and cast by Bartolommeo da Costa ) erected to symbolize the ...
... reforms and patronage of literature and the fine arts , Pombal had a gigantic bronze equestrian statute of the king ( designed by Joachim Machado de Castro [ 1731-1822 ] and cast by Bartolommeo da Costa ) erected to symbolize the ...
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... reforms . What course the Habsburg Empire may have taken had Leopold been given an additional 10 years of life is purely speculative ; for his reactionary successor , Francis II ( r.1792-1806 ) and the Napoleonic Wars that soon engulfed ...
... reforms . What course the Habsburg Empire may have taken had Leopold been given an additional 10 years of life is purely speculative ; for his reactionary successor , Francis II ( r.1792-1806 ) and the Napoleonic Wars that soon engulfed ...
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... reforms he introduced in the province of Limoges while serving as its intendant from 1761 to 1774 . Here in one of France's poor , unprogressive provinces , Turgot had encour- aged new farming methods , founded agricultural and ...
... reforms he introduced in the province of Limoges while serving as its intendant from 1761 to 1774 . Here in one of France's poor , unprogressive provinces , Turgot had encour- aged new farming methods , founded agricultural and ...
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Forces in Contention | 13 |
Baroque Cultural Currents Politics Economics | 49 |
and Society Part II | 75 |
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