Tuesday, August 5, 2014
RE THE DECLINE OF POWER DK POST
One might also couch the situation as a decline of legitimacy.
It is political legitimacy, but also has a cultural, and civilizational, aspect, in a longer perspective, not just the slide since WWI, or the slide since WWII, or even the slide farther back, since and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Those who have followed this site will see why, and how, I think this has happened.
Heilbron's work gives a rather detailed account as to how it came about, but only from around 1774 onward.
He only alludes to the big 'exogenous' factors (e g Seven Years War, etc.) in passing, focuses on the Revolution, and the philosophes preceding it.
It is political legitimacy, but also has a cultural, and civilizational, aspect, in a longer perspective, not just the slide since WWI, or the slide since WWII, or even the slide farther back, since and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Those who have followed this site will see why, and how, I think this has happened.
Heilbron's work gives a rather detailed account as to how it came about, but only from around 1774 onward.
He only alludes to the big 'exogenous' factors (e g Seven Years War, etc.) in passing, focuses on the Revolution, and the philosophes preceding it.
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