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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199265615
• ISBN13: 9780199265619
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"