2.      Lecture

Continuation – previous lecture.

Baroque, Prussia. Charles VI, Pragmatic Sanction and Maria Theresa. Enlightened absolutism, Reforms
of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War. Polish–Lithuanian
union, Partitions of Poland.


Readings:

·                    Abrams, Lynn (1995): Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871 – 1918. Routledge,
pp. 1 – 8.

http://books.google.cz/books?id=XcRDFrkk-CsC&pg=PA8&dq=germany+18+century+bismarck&hl=cs&ei=O2k8TJ2
zBorbsAb43-zCDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false


·                  Blanning, T. C. W. (1994): Joseph II. Edinburg, pp. 92 – 112.