Papers originally presented at a conference in Bad Homburg, Germany, Dec. 1986, sponsored by the German Historical Institute in London.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Towards a comparative study of political culture : the cases of late eighteenth-century England and Germany / Eckhart Hellmuth -- Crowd and people in the Gordon Riots / Nicholas Rogers -- Politics and morals : the reformation of manners movement in later eighteenth-century England / Joanna Innes -- Peasant resistance and politicization in Germany in the eighteenth century / Helmut Gabel and Winfried Schulze -- Provincial political culture in the Holy Roman Empire : the Franconian margravates of Ansbach and Bayreuth / Andrea Hofmeister-Hunger -- Urban culture and political activism in Hanoverian England : the example of voluntary hospitals / Kathleen Wilson -- Municipal politics in later eighteenth-century Maidstone : electoral polarization in the reign of George III / John A. Phillips.
German associations and politics in the second half of the eighteenth century / Ulrich Im Hof -- Enlightened societies in the metropolis : the case of Berlin / Horst Möller -- Freemasonry and the fabric of loyalism in Hanoverian England / John Money -- The English clergy and the American Revolution / Paul Langford -- The Christian as subject : the worldly mind of Prussian Protestant theologians in the late Enlightenment period / Günter Birtsch -- Pietistic millenarianism in late eighteenth-century Germany / Hartmut Lehmann -- Heretical religion and radical political ideas in late eighteenth-century England / Martin Fitzpatrick -- The moral vision of Thomas Bewick / John Brewer and Stella Tillyard -- Political rhetoric in the German Enlightenment / Franz Hubert Robling.
Journals and public opinion : the politicization of the German Enlightenment / Hans Erich Bödeker -- The true concept of liberty : political theory in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century / Diethelm Klippel -- "The palladium of all other liberties " : reflections on the liberty of the press in England during the 1760s and 1770s / Eckhart Hellmuth -- Popular loyalism in Britain in the 1790s / Harry T. Dickinson -- Conceptions of revolution in the English radicalism of the 1790s / John Dinwiddy -- The revolutionizing of consciousness : a German utopia? / Rudolf Vierhaus.
