A History of PrussiaRoutledge, 13 thg 10, 2014 - 336 trang In 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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... military concerns. It is true that Emperor Henry VI, the son of Frederick Barbarossa, had turned his attention to the order while planning a crusade, but this development was cut short by his death. Its actual rise was closely linked to ...
... military concerns. It is true that Emperor Henry VI, the son of Frederick Barbarossa, had turned his attention to the order while planning a crusade, but this development was cut short by his death. Its actual rise was closely linked to ...
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... military terms. Relentlessly the Germans drove forward into the wilderness, secured the Vistula by building the fortress at Elbing, destroyed the heathen shrines, and subdued and converted the natives at the point of the sword. In 1237 ...
... military terms. Relentlessly the Germans drove forward into the wilderness, secured the Vistula by building the fortress at Elbing, destroyed the heathen shrines, and subdued and converted the natives at the point of the sword. In 1237 ...
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... military initiative. This failed abysmally, not because of the superior strength of his Slav opponents, but because of the divided counsels within the order, counsels of knights whom Heinrich had decided to ignore. His own brother ...
... military initiative. This failed abysmally, not because of the superior strength of his Slav opponents, but because of the divided counsels within the order, counsels of knights whom Heinrich had decided to ignore. His own brother ...
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... military service of the newly baptized. Factors such as these led to uprisings and their suppression, both conducted with the cruelty typical of the period. Yet the aim of the order was not extermination but subjugation, the fixing of ...
... military service of the newly baptized. Factors such as these led to uprisings and their suppression, both conducted with the cruelty typical of the period. Yet the aim of the order was not extermination but subjugation, the fixing of ...
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... military expedition of the order, during the course of the fourteenth century the increase of the economic yield of the peasants became more and more important. Hence services could be commuted into monetary payments, which in turn ...
... military expedition of the order, during the course of the fourteenth century the increase of the economic yield of the peasants became more and more important. Hence services could be commuted into monetary payments, which in turn ...
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The Great Elector | |
From duchy to kingdom | |
Frederick William I | |
Frederick the Great | |
The War of Liberation | |
Restoration | |
Frederick William IV | |
Prussia and Germany 18601871 | |
Prussia in Germany | |
The end of Prussia | |
Bibliography | |
Genealogical tables Maps | |
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