A History of PrussiaIn little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language literature with this comprehensive account. It traces the origins and rise of the Prussian state from the thirteenth century to the causes and consequences of its incorporation into the German Empire. |
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The order's policy of expansion, however, did not remain uncontested, since the neighbours to the west, the Margraves of Brandenburg, following the extinction of the Pomerellian dukes considered themselves the rightful heirs and ...
The order's policy of expansion, however, did not remain uncontested, since the neighbours to the west, the Margraves of Brandenburg, following the extinction of the Pomerellian dukes considered themselves the rightful heirs and ...
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He was followed in 1511 by the first Grand Master to come from Brandenburg, Margrave Albrecht of BrandenburgAnsbach. Under Albrecht, and as a result of the Reformation, the order became a secularized institution, and Prussia a ...
He was followed in 1511 by the first Grand Master to come from Brandenburg, Margrave Albrecht of BrandenburgAnsbach. Under Albrecht, and as a result of the Reformation, the order became a secularized institution, and Prussia a ...
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But after his fall, the Margraves of Brandenburg had greater scope to pursue their political ambitions, one of which was to take Pomerania and thus gain access to the Baltic Sea. This brought them into conflict with the Danes, ...
But after his fall, the Margraves of Brandenburg had greater scope to pursue their political ambitions, one of which was to take Pomerania and thus gain access to the Baltic Sea. This brought them into conflict with the Danes, ...
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All the sons of a margrave were enfeoffed with the territory, though only the eldest represented the territory at the court of the Emperor. There, within the Empire, the Margraves of Brandenburg played an important role.
All the sons of a margrave were enfeoffed with the territory, though only the eldest represented the territory at the court of the Emperor. There, within the Empire, the Margraves of Brandenburg played an important role.
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The man he sent as the new margrave was the Burgraf Frederick of Nuremberg of the Swabian House of Hohenzollern. In terms of constitutional and administrative development in Brandenburg, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are marked ...
The man he sent as the new margrave was the Burgraf Frederick of Nuremberg of the Swabian House of Hohenzollern. In terms of constitutional and administrative development in Brandenburg, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are marked ...
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| 23 | |
3 The Great Elector | 43 |
4 From duchy to kingdom | 65 |
5 Frederick William I | 78 |
6 Frederick the Great | 102 |
7 Prussian absolutism in crisis | 140 |
8 The Prussian Reform Movement | 163 |
11 Frederick William IV | 227 |
12 Prussia and Germany 18601871 | 248 |
13 Prussia in Germany | 272 |
14 The end of Prussia | 284 |
Bibliography | 290 |
Genealogical tables | 300 |
Maps | 304 |
Index | 312 |
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