Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Wealth and noble autonomy: the Free Imperial Knights in Mainz on the eve of revolution
- 2 Nobles becoming Germans: the transformation of a concept
- 3 Nobles becoming Germans: the destruction of a “geo-cultural landscape”
- 4 Between destruction and survival: knights on the Middle Rhine 1750–1850
- 5 The past recaptured: knights in the Hapsburg Empire 1792–1848
- 6 From cathedral canons to priests: the Coudenhoves and the “Catholic revival”
- 7 The beginnings of conservative German nationalism: the “naturalization” of Baron Carl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831)
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Families of Free Imperial Knights (1797)
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Wealth and noble autonomy: the Free Imperial Knights in Mainz on the eve of revolution
- 2 Nobles becoming Germans: the transformation of a concept
- 3 Nobles becoming Germans: the destruction of a “geo-cultural landscape”
- 4 Between destruction and survival: knights on the Middle Rhine 1750–1850
- 5 The past recaptured: knights in the Hapsburg Empire 1792–1848
- 6 From cathedral canons to priests: the Coudenhoves and the “Catholic revival”
- 7 The beginnings of conservative German nationalism: the “naturalization” of Baron Carl vom und zum Stein (1757–1831)
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Families of Free Imperial Knights (1797)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Nobles and Nation in Central EuropeFree Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004