The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789

by Timothy C.W. Blanning

Book Overview

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the center to the margins by the emergence of a new
kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198227450
• ISBN13: 9780198227458
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.2"