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Earthly Powers The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War

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ISBN-10: 0060580933

ISBN-13: 9780060580933

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Burleigh

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In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe. Examining the ways in which politics and religion have influenced each other over the last two hundred years, he reveals that throughout history the two realms have interacted in complex and sometimes lethal ways -- just as they still do today. The overall effect was a widespread increase in secularism and a demystification of the power of politics. With dazzling scope, Burleigh encompasses the philosophies of the Enlightenment and the influence of thinkers like Maistre and Bonald and Lamennais, painters like Zoffany and David, the Catholic…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Michael Burleigh, as of the fall of 2000, is a professor of history at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of six previous books on Germany, including Death and Deliverance and Ethics and Extermination.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Age of Reason, Age of Faith
The Church and the Revolution
Puritans Thinking They are Spartans Run Amok in Eighteenth-Century Paris
The Alliance of Throne and Altar in Restoration Europe
Chosen Peoples: Political Messianism and Nationalism
Century of Faiths
New Men and Sacred Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia
Rendering Unto Caesar: Church versus State, State versus Church
The Churches and Industrial Society
Apocalypse 1914
Notes
Select Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index