The Great Elector : Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

by Derek Mckay

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Profiles In Power

ISBN-10 0582494826

ISBN-13 9780582494824

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 28th, 2001

Print length 300 Pages

Weight 386 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 13.80 x 1.80 cms

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At the time of his death Frederick William's Brandenburg was an absolute monarchy second only to Austria in the German lands. This biography roots him in his own time, a dynastic protestant ruler gifted with toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobles.

In this first biography in English for fifty years, Derek McKay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the ''Enlightened'' Frederick the Great. Instead, he roots him firmly in his own time, a dynastic, protestant ruler like many another in Germany, but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers.

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