1. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Emergence of the European State System Chapter 17

2. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France A. The Rule of Louis XIV  Bishop Bossuet  Absolutism 1. Versailles  “Sun King”  Domestication of the aristocracy

3. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France A. The Rule of Louis XIV 2. Court Life  Racine  Molière  Lully 3. Paris and Versailles

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6. I. Absolutism in France B. Government  Control over:  Military  Law  Revenue 1. The King’s Dual Functions  King in council  King in court

7. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France B. Government 2. Competing Ministers  Jean-Baptiste Colbert  Marquis de Louvois

8. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France C. Foreign Policy  Goals:  Expand France’s frontiers  Assert French superiority  Glory  Balance of power  War with Dutch

9. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France C. Foreign Policy 1. Louis versus Europe  William III  Leopold 2. The War of Spanish Succession  Philip  Grand Alliance  Marlborough  Eugène  Peace of Utrecht

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11. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Map 17.1B The Wars of Louis XIV

12. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France D. Domestic Policy 1. Control and Reform  Revocation of Edict of Nantes  Jansenism  Parlement of Paris  Colbert

13. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. I. Absolutism in France E. The End of an Era F. France after Louis XIV  Duke of Orléans  John Law 1. Louis XV and Fleury 2. Political Problems  Vingtième 3. The Long Term

14. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism A. The Habsburgs at Vienna Leopold I Schönbrunn 1. Government Policy  Privy Council  Charles, Duke of Lorraine, and siege of Vienna

15. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism A. The Habsburgs at Vienna 2. Eugène and Austria’s Military Success 3. The Power of the Nobility

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17. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism B. The Hohenzollerns at Berlin  Brandenburg-Prussia  Frederick William the Great Elector 1. Foreign Policy 2. Domestic Policy  War Chest  War commissars

18. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism B. The Hohenzollerns at Berlin 3. The Junkers 4. Frederick III  Berlin  War of the Spanish Succession  “King in Prussia”

19. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Map 17.3 Conflict In The Baltic Area, 1660-1721

20. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism C. Rivalry and State Building  International rivalry vs. internal development D. The Prussia of Frederick William I 1. Emphasis on the Military  General Directory of Finance, War, and Domains

21. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism E. Frederick the Great 1. Frederick’s Absolutism  “Enlightened” absolutist

22. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Map 17.5 Prussia And The Austrian Empire, 1721-1772

23. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism F. The Hapsburg Empire 1. International Rivalry  Charles VI  Pragmatic Sanction 2. The War of Austrian Succession  Silesia 3. Maria Theresa 4. Reform in Church and State

24. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism G. Habsburgs and Bourbons at Madrid  Charles II  War of the Spanish Succession 1. Bourbon Spain  Count Pedro de Campomanes  Jesuits

25. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism H. Peter the Great at St. Petersburg 1. Peter’s Fierce Absolutism 2. Western Models 3. Bureaucratization 4. The Imposition of Social Order 5. The Subjugation of the Nobility

26. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. II. Other Patterns of Absolutism E. Peter the Great at St. Petersburg 6. Control of the Church 7. Military Expansion  Poltava

27. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Map 17.4 The Expansion of Russia and the Partition of Poland

28. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism A. Aristocracy in the United Provinces, Sweden, and Poland  Antonius Heinsius 1. Dutch Society 2. Sweden  Charles XII  Queen Ulrika 3. Poland  John III

29. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism B. The Triumph of the Gentry in England  Charles II 1. The Gentry and Parliament 2. The Succession  James II 3. William and Mary  Bill of Rights  Act of Toleration

30. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism C. Politics and Prosperity 1. Party Conflict  Whigs  Tories  Queen Anne  George I of Hanover

31. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism C. Politics and Prosperity 2. The Sea and the Economy  Great Britain  Bank of England 3. English Society

32. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism D. The Growth of Stability  “Political nation” 1. War and Taxes 2. The Age of Walpole  George I  George II  South Sea Bubble  “Cabinet” 3. Commercial Interests

33. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. III. Alternatives to Absolutism E. Contrasts in Political Thought 1. Hobbes 2. Leviathan  “State of nature”  Social contract 3. Locke  Tabula rasa 4. Of Civil Government  Inalienable rights: life, liberty, property  Defend individual against the state

34. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. IV. The International System A. Diplomacy and Warfare  Dynastic politics 1. “Balance of Power” and the Diplomatic System B. Armies and Navies 1. Tactics and Discipline 2. Officers 3. Weak Alliances

35. Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. IV. The International System C. The Seven Years’ War  Diplomatic revolution  Convention of Westminster 1. The Course of War  Peter III 2. Peace  Peace of Hubertusburg