Europe: 1715-1799
Should
the Enlightenment
be studied in ‘national context’ rather than as a general ‘cosmopolitan’ movement?
Les parlements étaient sans doute plus occupé d’eux-mêmes que des choses publiques.’
Discuss.
Were the problems besetting
Maria Theresa
due to the nature of her inheritance or her own mistakes?
Was
Brandenburg-Prussia
a more secure state at the death of Frederick the Great than it had been at his accession?
What lessons did
Catherine the Great of Russia learn from the Pugachev rebellion
,
and how far had she acted on these by her death?
‘Here lies Joseph II who was unfortunate in all his undertakings.’
Could Joseph have fairly blamed his ultimate failure on misfortune?
Why did successive attempts to
reconcile the French Revolution with a constitutional monarchy
ultimately fail?
Did the survival of the French Republic up to 1799
owe more to its own efforts or the conduct of its enemies?
