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Frederick the Great : A Historical Profile by Gerhard Ritter (1975, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520027752

ISBN-139780520027756

eBay Product ID (ePID)894985

Product Key Features

Book TitleFrederick the Great : a Historical Profile

Number of Pages268 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRoyalty, Europe / General

Publication Year1975

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGerhard Ritter

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Dewey Decimal943.053

Table Of ContentIntroduction by Peter Paret 1. Frederick and His Age: The System of Absolutism 2. The Brandenburg-Prussian Heritage 3. The Development of Frederick's Personality 4. The King's View of the World 5. The King's View of the State 6. The Conquest of Silesia 7. Maintenance of Prussia's New Power 8. Frederician Warfare 9. The Character of Frederician Government and Society 10. The Old King: Foreign Policy in the Last Decades of His Reign

SynopsisGERHARD RITTER'S biography of Frederick the Great onglnated in a series of lectures, which were published with scarcely any revisions in 1936. In this translation, based on the third edition, published in 1954, Paret has tried to convey the hard and precise style that characterizes the German text, while eliminating some of the numerous adjectives and parallel phrases that a lecturer might have found useful for emphasis but which seem unnecessary on the printed page. With the author's agreement also excluded is the brief introduction and epilogue of the original, since they are addressed specifically to the German reader and to German conditions. Gerhard Ritter died in 1967, shortly after the translation was completed.

LC Classification NumberDD404