Western Civilization: Since 1560The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western influences, and 2) power in all its senses, public and private; economic, social, cultural, and political; symbolic and real. |
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Page 675
... reform of representation in Parliament began in the late 1760s as profession- als , such as doctors and lawyers , with movable ( as opposed to landed ) property and merchants in booming but underrepresented cities began to de- mand the ...
... reform of representation in Parliament began in the late 1760s as profession- als , such as doctors and lawyers , with movable ( as opposed to landed ) property and merchants in booming but underrepresented cities began to de- mand the ...
Page 704
... reform and de- bated the nature and extent of reform needed . In 1787 the king called an “ Assembly of Nota- bles " —an ad hoc group of elites - to support him in facing down the parlements and proceeding with some reforms . He found ...
... reform and de- bated the nature and extent of reform needed . In 1787 the king called an “ Assembly of Nota- bles " —an ad hoc group of elites - to support him in facing down the parlements and proceeding with some reforms . He found ...
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... reform and made some conservatives reluctant to oppose reform for fear of suffering the same fate as the hapless Charles X. In 1831 the liberal Whig government of Earl Grey ( 1764-1845 ) , a hereditary peer who nevertheless was well ...
... reform and made some conservatives reluctant to oppose reform for fear of suffering the same fate as the hapless Charles X. In 1831 the liberal Whig government of Earl Grey ( 1764-1845 ) , a hereditary peer who nevertheless was well ...
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