HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sonderweg, Winter Palace
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Prussia: where is it and why that matters, prussia is hard to defend because: a compromise. He ties the nobility to an idea of nation military service. Not wealthy: frederick william, the great elector. Nobility (junkers) gets: tax exemption, right of inheritance, Frederick gets the right to collect a certain amount from taxes from commoners (nobility exempt) in which he uses to create an army of. He hired this army out to other countries to use. The (cid:498)great recess(cid:499): 1(cid:888)(cid:887)(cid:885), refers to the summoning. The prussian"s will loose a war if you fight them but they will take such a price from the opposing army that it"s better to just avoid them or create. Army designed for a sprint short smart wars. Voltaire called prussia not a state but instead (cid:498)an army with a state where it camps(cid:499: the social consequences of prussia"s development, prussia ends with an aristocracy.
