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61Enlightenment Spain — History of Spain caption= Atropos (or Fate) by Francisco GoyaThe Age of Enlightenment (in Spanish, Ilustración ) came to Spain in the eighteenth century with the French Bourbon dynasty, after the decay of the Spanish economy, bureaucracy, and… …
62Orientalische Despotie — Die orientalische Despotie ist ein von Karl August Wittfogel wiederbelebter Begriff, der vor allem auf Aristoteles und Montesquieu zurückgeht, auch in der Marxistischen Gesellschaftstheorie in Form der asiatischen Wirtschaftsform formuliert wurde …
63bastille — /ba steel /; Fr. /banns tee yeu/, n., pl. bastilles /ba steelz /; Fr. /banns tee yeu/. 1. (cap.) a fortress in Paris, used as a prison, built in the 14th century and destroyed July 14, 1789. 2. any prison or jail, esp. one conducted in a… …
64censorship — /sen seuhr ship /, n. 1. the act or practice of censoring. 2. the office or power of a censor. 3. the time during which a censor holds office. 4. the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor. [1585 95; CENSOR + SHIP] * * * Act of …
65France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
66Frederick II — 1. See Frederick I (def. 2). 2. ( Frederick the Great ) 1712 86, king of Prussia 1740 86 (son of Frederick William I). * * * I German Friedrich known as Frederick the Great born Jan. 24, 1712, Berlin died Aug. 17, 1786, Potsdam, near Berlin King… …
67Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
68Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de — ▪ French political philosopher Introduction born January 18, 1689, Château La Brède, near Bordeaux, France died February 10, 1755, Paris French political philosopher whose major work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to… …
69political system — Introduction the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… …
70William Henry Harrison: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Thursday, March 4, 1841 Called from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my life to fill the chief executive office of this great and free nation, I appear before you, fellow citizens,… …
