History and Biography
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales
Contributors: T. C. W. Blanning (Editor); David Cannadine (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521893176
Subjects: Historiography; World history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - General; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Essays; Europe - General; Beales, Derek Edward Dawson; History / Europe / General; History / Modern / General; History-Essays; History-Europe - General
First sentence: IN November 1753, at the request of the Empress Maria Theresia, the aged Baron Johann Christian Bartenstein (he was then 63) wrote two memorials on the working of Count Friedrich Wilhelm Haugwitz's new System ('neue Sistemate') of finance and government, introduced in 1748-9.