Contest for Empire, 1500-1775: Proceedings of an Indiana American Revolution Bicentennial Symposium: Thrall's Opera House, New Harmony, Indiana, May 16 and 17, 1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
David R. Farrell ◽  
John B. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Opera House ◽  
New Harmony

The Next American Revolution

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Lee Boggs ◽  
Scott Kurashige
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution

The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Joseph Ii

The forces of aristocracy, which in some countries in the 1780s prevailed over democratic movements, prevailed in others over monarchy itself. This chapter takes up a thread left hanging at the close of Chapter IV. It was shown there that, by the middle 1770s, or just before the American Revolution, the kings of France and of Sweden, and the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, had asserted royal authority and put the constituted bodies of their several realms under restraint. The following fifteen years made clear the limits beyond which enlightened despotism could not go. However held down, the constituted bodies—estates, diets, parlements, and the like—had strong powers of survival and resurgence. This chapter deals mainly with the Hapsburg monarchy under Joseph II and Leopold II, with observations, since not everything can be told, on Prussia, Sweden, and Russia.

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