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Inhalt :: Content Online-Service mit Zugang zu britischen Regierungsunterlagen aus dem Zeitalter der Aufklärung aus den Beständen der National Archives in Kew (London). Abgedeckt sind die Regierungszeiten von George I (1714–1727), George II (1727–1760) und George III (bis 1782). Die Sammlung enthält u.a. Regierungsdekrete, militärische Berichte und diplomatische Korrespondenzen und erschließt jede Facette des politischen Alltags Großbritanniens und Europas im 18. Jahrhundert. |
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Verlag :: Publisher Gale Cengage |
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Das Angebot richtet sich nicht an Verbraucher i. S. d. § 13 BGB und Letztverbraucher i. S. d. PAngV. |
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Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number 107466 |
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the Hanover rulers George I (1714-1727) and George II (1727-1760) and part of the reign of George III (up to 1782), the series provides unparalleled access to thousands of manuscripts that reveal the behind-the-scenes, day-to-day running of the British Government during the eighteenth century.
Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military and Naval and the Registers of the Privy Council Along with the many internal and external threats to Hanoverian rule, users can also search and browse across a rich range of reports, petitions, and correspondence relating to the general administration and constitution of England; law and order; trade and shipping; and the founding of an empire abroad that extended to North America in the west and the Indian subcontinent in the east. The collection is invaluable for uncovering the routines of government, which rarely feature in the major narratives of the eighteenth century — for example, the management of Privy Council business, especially appointments, minutes of cabinet meetings, and excise and revenue. Consequently, the collection contains enormous potential for fresh historical discoveries. Part I contains documents that provide evidence of the extent and nature of decisions taken by government and, more importantly, who was making those decisions. The records serve to illustrate the personal style of the secretaries of state who, with the chancellor of the Exchequer, controlled almost the entire life of the nation. Researchers can examine the different ways in which the three Hanover monarchs conducted the business of monarchy and also develop perspectives on the king’s changing role in political and administrative history. Key themes include:
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Part II: State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany This rich archive includes correspondence with English diplomats abroad and foreign diplomats in England, original and draft treaties, letters between heads of state, intercepted dispatches and other intelligence, working papers of the secretaries, and material relating to military, naval, and colonial policy. Part II expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782 when the State Papers series ends. The collection turns its lens on the eighteenth-century world beyond England, documenting the relationship of the Hanoverian reign with Flanders, Holland, and Germany, with particular focus on European powers such as the Holy Roman Empire and German states and towns. It also includes the Military Expedition series and the Archives of British Legations. The included volumes provide the correspondence, communications, and conduct of events that were discussed in internal documents in the domestic papers of Part I, such as the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War; reports from British agents; correspondence from other ambassadors and advisers; letters to and from the king and the Holy Roman emperors; and compensation claims, petitions, and royal warrants. It provides users with the ability to browse and search manuscript material from over 1000 volumes. Part II's detailed coverage of international diplomacy offers eighteenth-century scholars fresh insights into the workings of the Hanoverian court and those of its allies and enemies in Europe.
State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 Part III includes the State Papers series relating to France, Dunkirk, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, as well as supplementary records of the Levant Company in Aleppo and the Aleppo consulate. It also includes the Royal Letters and Treaties series.
The majority of the papers are those written or received by the Secretaries of State for the Southern Department in the course of British diplomacy and intelligence gathering by British ambassadors and envoys abroad. As such, they document the relationship of the Hanoverian monarchs with the rulers, governments and commerce of Western Europe. Reports and correspondence from wars and alliances across Europe, including the Quadruple Alliance against Spain (1718-20) and the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), are covered alongside other events with wide international repercussions. The discovery of the Cellamare plot in France in 1718, the Corsican crisis of 1768-9, and detailed reports on the Jacobite Pretenders are all included within the scope of the papers. Whilst Spain and France represent the biggest international players in this section of State Papers Eighteenth Century, the dynastic struggles for control of smaller but strategically important states such as Savoy and Sardinia, or the various contested islands and land holdings in the Americas and Asia, help researchers form a broad picture of politics and diplomacy on a global level as the European powers pursued colonial and imperial ambitions. Furthermore, the minutiae of the correspondence of British agents with Whitehall also casts light on aspects of social history such as public health, the status of merchants abroad, and the personal relationships between political figures or Royal families of Europe. Scholars will also find narratives of each country’s history running through the letters and reports as events, debates, discussions, conversations and gossip are relayed back to London, offering new and personal perspectives on the wider movements of European politics in the eighteenth century.
State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782 Part IV presents, digitised for the first time, the letters, memorials and treaties pertaining to Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Turkey and the Barbary States. It also includes papers sent to the British Secretaries of State from foreign ministers in England, as well as ‘confidential’ and intercepted letters between key figures in international politics. Eighteenth century scholars will find new insights into international attitudes to Britain and the condition of Europe, as colonial ambitions, dynastic alliances and emerging trade networks were all widely discussed.
These series of State Papers complete the picture of European statecraft and diplomacy presented throughout the State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century collection.
The papers relating to Prussia, a crucial power in Europe throughout the century, allow researchers to access consular correspondence and personal views surrounding the mid-century shift in continental alliances known as the Diplomatic Revolution. The start of the Seven Years’ War saw Britain allied with Prussia under Frederick the Great, and France allied to Austria, in a direct switch of allegiances from those of the earlier War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Elsewhere, Prussian, Russian, and Swedish armies kept a vulnerable Poland in a state of near-constant turmoil and nibbled at Polish possessions throughout the century, setting the stage for the decisive partitions after 1772, the first of which is covered in this collection. Elsewhere, documents follow the rise of Russia as a European power under Peter the Great and, later, Catherine the Great; British concerns over the power balance in northern Europe meant relations with Russia and the in-fighting of the imperial court were closely monitored, as well as Russian intentions towards not only Britain, but Denmark, Norway and Sweden. For those interested in national history, the reports of the ambassadors provide a commentary on the comings and goings of diplomats, spies, nobles and ministers at the royal courts as well as on court directives, gossip, internal power politics and the health of the ruler.
Manuscript series (The National Archives, UK) in Part IV include:
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