Table of Contents

List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of source names; 1. Hesse-Cassel and the problem of enlightened absolutism; 2. Policymaking; 3. The postwar recovery; 4. The famine years; 5. Foreign and military policy; 6. Cassel's golden age; 7. The final years; Bibliography; Index.

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Ingrao finds that Frederick was neither as evil as we might think nor as enlightened as we might like to believe.