Molly Taylor-Poleskey The Great Elector's Table (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Great Elector's TableCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9780813951607Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0813951607ISBN: 9780813951607Author: Molly Taylor-PoleskeyItem Length: 152mmItem Height: 229mmType: AnthropologySubtitle: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-PrussiaPublisher: University of Virginia PressRelease Date: 10/31/2024Description: What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century German life. In this remarkable book, the first of its kind, Molly Taylor-Poleskey offers an innovative critical approach to understanding how a particular dynasty and an unexceptional German state rose to their eminent position on the Central European stage following the devastation of the Thirty Years’ War. Food, she shows, functioned both as a tool of self-aggrandizement for rulers and as a means of coercion and leverage in power negotiations. From bakers to botanists, court servants up and down the social ladder each had a role to play in the political life of this court. Moving beyond dusty bureaucratic narratives, this colorful and inviting book offers readers a new way of appreciating how culture, politics, the natural environment, and science intertwined in early modern German statecraft.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 13mmGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Law & PoliticsBook Series: Studies in Early Modern German HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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