IAH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Totalitarianism
10 Sep 2016
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Iah202 lecture 2 absolutism and the ancient regime : the emergence of the modern state. Peasants and town people: definition of absolutism. The exaltation of the ruler as the embodiment of the state i am the state! and also the state is me . Move the court to huntington if those noble want to get power they have to come to court, they are under the eye of king. Absolutism is not totalitarianism, but there are some similarities between the two. New scale and feel to political life- looming presence of the state: the tasks of the absolutist state. To protect its territory and the expansion of its claims. To enlist the service of the church. Revocation of the edict of nantes (1685) To employ culture to exalt the state : creating a spectacle . To be seen was the supreme social duty of the nobility.
