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Competing for Power and Wealth

Explore the power struggles, military expansion, cultural shifts, and societal changes during the grandeur and decline of European empires in the 1700s. Witness wars, monarchies, revolutions, and the birth of new nations.

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Competing for Power and Wealth

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  1. 15 Competing for Power and Wealth The Old Regime, 1715–1789

  2. TIMELINE

  3. Statebuilding and War • Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe • New leadership in expanding Russia • Catherine the Great • The partition of Poland

  4. Statebuilding and War • Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe • The decline of the Ottoman Empire • Forging a military state in Prussia • Austria tries to hold on • The mid-century land wars • The Diplomatic Revolution

  5. Statebuilding and War • Warfare in the Eighteenth Century

  6. Statebuilding and War • Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry • The French monarchy in decline • Making the British system work • Colonies, trade, and war

  7. Statebuilding and War • Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry • The triangle of trade • The slave trade • Fighting on three continents

  8. The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism • Frederick the Great • Joseph II • Style, substance, or survival?

  9. Changes in Country and City Life • The Agricultural Revolution • New crops and techniques • Enclosures

  10. Changes in Country and City Life • Manufacturing Spreads in the Countryside: Cottage Industry

  11. Changes in Country and City Life • More People, Longer Lives • Population growth • Eighteenth-century medicine

  12. Changes in Country and City Life • Deepening Misery for the Poor “The people could only exist by exhausting their resources…” – Jacques Turgot

  13. Changes in Country and City Life • Prosperity and the Bourgeoisie

  14. The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New • The Advent of the Modern Novel

  15. The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New • Pride and Sentiment in Art and Architecture

  16. The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New • Reaching New Heights in Music • Baroque music • The classical style

  17. The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New • Biography: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756–1791) • Child Prodigy, Musical Genius “You know that I am, so to speak, swallowed up in music, that I am busy with it all day – speculating, studying, considering.” – Mozart

  18. The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and the New • The Grand Tour

  19. Culture for the Lower Classes • Festivals and Popular Literature

  20. Culture for the Lower Classes • Gin and Beer

  21. Culture for the Lower Classes • Religious Revivals • Pietism

  22. Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution • Insults, Interests, and Principles: The Seeds of Revolt • New commercial regulations and taxes

  23. Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution • A War for Independence

  24. Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution • Creating the New Nation • War for independence or revolution?

  25. Key Dates Eighteenth-Century Politics and society

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