The Birth Of Absolutism
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The Birth Of Absolutism
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Author : Yves Marie Bercé
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1996
The Birth Of Absolutism written by Yves Marie Bercé and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Yves-Marie Berce's THE BIRTH OF ABSOLUTISM offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of France between the Edict of Nantes and the personal rule of Louis XIV, a period dominated by the names of two cardinals - Richelieu and Mazarin. Berce brings to the task not only familiarity with the sources and with French historiography, but also a thorough knowledge of the large body of English and American research on seventeenth-century France. This has enabled him to escape the diminishing perspective of the older French school, the 'grand history told from Paris' which reduced the course of events to an account of the inevitable triumph of the 'Royal state'. Berce emphasises the degree to which the French Crown remained beset by an aristocratic faction only too ready to avail itself of royal minorities, religious dissent or provincial grievances in the pursuit of its own ambitions.
Britannia 1066 1884
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Author : Charles K. Rowley
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Britannia 1066 1884 written by Charles K. Rowley and has been published by Springer Science & Business this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Political Science categories.
This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice, philosophy and the law to probe in depth into the evolution of Britannia from an impoverished feudal and then post-feudal autocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited suffrage that provided the fulcrum for industrial and commercial success, making Britannia, by 1884, the richest nation, per capita, on the planet. The book challenges head-on the Whiggist liberal notion of Macaulay and Trevelyan that the path from oppression to freedom was one of unimpeded progress. Among its novel features, the book draws upon the dictator’s handbook, as modeled by Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith to evaluate the period of varying autocracy, 1066-1688. The book draws upon modern public choice theory and legal history to evaluate the fragile, corrupt constitutional monarchy that oversaw the initial phase of post-Glorious Revolution Britannia, 1689-1775. At each stage, the philosophical battle between those who sought order and unity and those who sought individual liberty is meticulously outlined. The book draws on the contributions of the Scottish Enlightenment (Hume, Ferguson and Smith) and of classical liberal philosophy (John Stuart Mill) to explain the final vault of Britannia from a weak and corrupt to a robust and admired constitutional monarchy grounded on the rule of law, over the period 1776-1884.
Absolutism In Central Europe
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Author : Peter Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Absolutism In Central Europe written by Peter Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety of disciplines have defined and explained political development across what was formerly known as the 'age of absolutism'. It assesses whether the term still has utility as a tool of analysis and it explores the wider ramifications of the process of state-formation from the experience of central Europe from the early seventeenth century to the start of the nineteenth.
Britannia 1066 1884
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Author : Charles K. Rowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-31
Britannia 1066 1884 written by Charles K. Rowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-31 with categories.
Absolutism And Its Discontents
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Author : Michael S. Kimmel
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1988
Absolutism And Its Discontents written by Michael S. Kimmel and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
In The King S Wake
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Author : Jay Caplan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999
In The King S Wake written by Jay Caplan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien régime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. In the King's Wake traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture across a wide range of works and genres: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; the plays of Marivaux; and Casanova's History of My Life. While absolutist culture had focused on value directly represented in people (e.g., those of noble blood) and things (e.g., coins made of precious metals), post-absolutist culture instead explored the capacity of signs to stand for something real (e.g., John Law's banknotes or Marivaux's plays in which actions rather than birth signify nobility). Between the image of the Sun King and visions of the godlike Romantic self, Caplan discovers a post-absolutist France wracked by surprisingly modern conflicts over the true sources of value and legitimacy.
Paris In The Age Of Absolutism
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Author : Orest A. Ranum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Paris In The Age Of Absolutism written by Orest A. Ranum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Paris (France) categories.
Provides a history of 17th-century Paris. Emphasis is given to architecture, interiors, streets, quarters, social and living conditions. It illuminates the importance of every major social group, from the nobility to the beggars, and describes their effects on society and on each other.
The Origins Of French Absolutism 1598 1661
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Author : Alan James
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-14
The Origins Of French Absolutism 1598 1661 written by Alan James and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal ‘absolutism’ on its head by redefining the French monarchy’s success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of absolutism, but that by satisfying long-established, traditional ambitions, cardinal ministers Richelieu and Mazarin undoubtedly made the confident, ambitious reign of the late century possible.
Absolutism And Society In Seventeenth Century France
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Author : William Beik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Absolutism And Society In Seventeenth Century France written by William Beik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Birth Of The Leviathan
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Author : Thomas Ertman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-13
Birth Of The Leviathan written by Thomas Ertman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-13 with History categories.
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some states become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors--local government and sustained geo-military competition--can explain most of the variation found across the continent.