SUMARIO: The age of absolutism, 1648/1790 - Economic and social conditions after 1648 - Absolutism in the German states: the rise of brandenburg - Germany, the wars of Louis XIV, and the rise of the austrian empire, 1660/99 - Germany and the restoration of the european balance, 1700/21 - Religious, intellectual, and artistic life in the age of the baroque - Austria and Prussia under Charles VI and Frederick William I - The austro/prussian dualism and the reign of Maria Theresa - The seven years'war and the monarchy of Frederick the great - Germany on the eve of the frech revolution - German idealism and neohumanism - Germany and the french revolution, the end of the empire and the collapse of Prussia, 1789/1807 - Reform and liberation, 1807/15 - The wars of liberation and the peace settlement of Vienna - The restoration after 1815 - Schools and churches in the early nineteenth century - The transition from idealism to realism - Index

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