18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 33

[cahn]

And, I mean, it doesn't have to be just 18th century characters, either!

(also, waiting for Yuletide!)

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Re: 1730 European snapshot

[cahn]

ha! I can see you were busy while all the rest of us were yuletiding :P :) I have not even gotten to read all this yet, but I hope to start catching up to salon in the next day or two!

Re: 1730 European snapshot

[selenak]

I can see you were busy while all the rest of us were yuletiding

And the result renders insanely complicated European politics with admirable clarity. I'm in awe, as ever when Mildred does that!

Re: 1730 European snapshot

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you! I hope it was at least somewhat clear, omg. Getting it straight in my head was a real struggle, then I had to write it all down quickly before I forgot!

Here's my bibliography, which it occurs to me I should also write down before I forget.

Things I read:
Black, Jeremy. British Foreign Policy 1727-1731. 1982.
Black, Jeremy. Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714–1727. 2014.
Blanning, Tim. George I: The Lucky King. 2017.
Faulkner, James. The War of the Spanish Succession. 2015.
Hartley, Janet. Charles Whitworth: Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great. 202.
Hatton, Ragnhild. Charles XII of Sweden. 1968.
Hatton, Ragnhild. George I: Elector and King. 1978.
Kamen, Henry. Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice. 2001.
Lodge, Richard. "The Treaty of Seville (1729)". 1933. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1-43.
McKay, Derek. Prince Eugene of Savoy. 1977
Massie, Robert. Peter the Great: His Life and World. 1980.
Symcox, Geoffrey. Victor Amadeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730 1983.

Things I read only the relevant sections of:
Black, Jeremy. British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727-44. 2014.
Black, Jeremy. A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy 1660-1793. 1991.
Black, Jeremy. The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731. 1987.
British Diplomatic Instructions. Volume 6: France, 1727 - 1744. 1930.
Campbell, Peter. Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745.
Cruikshanks, Evelyn. The factions at the court of Louis XV and the succession to Cardinal Fleury, 1737–45. 1956.
Pearce, Edward. The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister. 2011.
Recueil des instructions données aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France. XII. Espagne. 1899.
Recueil des instructions données aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France. XVI. Prusse. 1901.
Simms, Brendan. Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire. 2007.
Storrs, Christopher. War, Diplomacy, and the Rise of Savoy, 1690-1720. 2009.
Thompson, Andrew. George II: King and Elector. 2011.
Wilson, Arthur. French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury. 1936.

(Some of them I do intend to go back and read more of. Not Walpole, though, that one was terrible.)

Things I only consulted:
Aldridge, David. Admiral Sir John Norris and the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715-1727. 1972.
Chance, James. George I and the Northern War. 1909.
Chance, James. The Alliance of Hanover: A Study of British Foreign Policy in the Last Years of George I. 1923.

The last one is 800 pages on the negotiations surrounding one alliance over 2 years, omg. If my fic were set in 1725-1727, that would be such a good resource! As it is, I got rather overwhelmed.

Still waiting for:
Hughes, Michael. Law and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Imperial Aulic Council in the Reign of Charles VI. 1992. (aka Mecklenburg.)

Should probably read even if unreliable:
Hervey's unabridged memoirs, now that we have them. Curses to the bowdlerizing descendant who ripped out most of 1730-1732!

And this is my excuse for why none of you got any treats. :P

Re: 1730 European snapshot

[mildred_of_midgard]

Lol, yep. This was my "too busy for Yuletide" project even after my sleep resolved. I got so hyperfocused and monofandom it was hard to read about anything but 1720-1731, even the 1710s or later 1730s! Now things have calmed down a bit and I can go back to studying German, reading about things that are not 1720-1731, and writing about Peter Keith (and hopefully Fredersdorf)!