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| Robert Jenkins |
English captain; lost his ear to the Spaniards in the West Indies; |
1731 |
| War of the Austrian Succession |
Prussian siezure of Silesia initiated it; France got involved and pulled Britain and Spain into it as well; |
1740-1748 |
| Maria Theresa |
preserved the Habsburg Empire as a major political power; won loyalty and support from subjects; granted privilages to the nobles; |
(r. 1740-1780) |
| Diplomatic Revolution |
French and Indian War lead up to this; |
1756 |
| The Seven Years' War |
Initiated by Frederick II's invasion of Saxony; ended with the Treaty of Hubertusburg |
(1756-1763) |
| Marquis Cesare Beccaria |
Italian aristocrat; philosophe; "On Crimes and Punishments" |
1738-1794 |
| physiocrats |
one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy. |
n/a |
| François Quesney and Pierre Dupont de Nemours |
leading spokespeople of the physiocrats |
(1694-1774) and (1739-1817), respectively |
| Adam Smith |
"Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" important economic figure; professor at Glasgow University; believed in economic liberty; |
1723-1790 |
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