The Culture Of Merit In Old Regime France
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The Culture Of Merit In Old Regime France
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Author : Jay M. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Culture Of Merit In Old Regime France written by Jay M. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with France categories.
strictly public and impersonal affair. The moral qualities thought to be reflected in high "birth" were thus overshadowed by the need for functional utility. "Talent"--a specific and always useful quality--was merit's new synonym.
The Culture Of Merit
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Author : Jay M. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1996
The Culture Of Merit written by Jay M. Smith and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution
The French Army 1750 1820
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Author : Rafe Blaufarb
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
The French Army 1750 1820 written by Rafe Blaufarb and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This book crosses the chronological boundary of 1789 to bring the histories of the Old Regime, Revolution, Empire, and Restoration together.
The Emergence Of Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Marvin B. Becker
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1994
The Emergence Of Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century written by Marvin B. Becker and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Although there were differences in the ways their societies were transformed, eighteenth-century England and Scotland provide the clearest expression of the newly emerged civil society.
Revolutions And The Collapse Of Monarchy
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Author : Zhand Shakibi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-02-23
Revolutions And The Collapse Of Monarchy written by Zhand Shakibi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-23 with History categories.
What causes revolution? What brought about the end of the last major monarchies of the modern period? Were Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the unwitting victims of historical circumstance, or did their own actions help to bring about the revolutions that overthrew them? This powerful and original book is the first comparative study of the revolutions in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi analyses fully the timing and causes of these three revolutions and reveals the important similarities between them. "Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy" argues provocatively that it is often the monarch's own personality that provides the vital spark which produces revolution. This ambitious and important book challenges the Marxist interpretation of history and adds a compelling new perspective to theories of revolution.
Beyond Binary Histories
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Author : Victor B. Lieberman
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1999
Beyond Binary Histories written by Victor B. Lieberman and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
An engaging collection that probes at the existence of an early modern Eurasia
A Revolution In Commerce
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Author : Amalia D. Kessler
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
A Revolution In Commerce written by Amalia D. Kessler and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Law categories.
"Kessler shows how the merchants who were associated with the court - and not just elite thinkers and royal reformers - played a key role in reconceptualizing commerce as the credit-fueled private exchange necessary to sustain the social order. Deploying this modern conception of commerce in a variety of contexts, ranging from litigation over negotiable instruments to corporatist battles for status and jurisdiction, these merchants contributed (largely inadvertently and to their ultimate regret) to the demise of corporatism as both conceptual framework and institutional practice. In so doing, they helped bring about the social and political revolution of 1789." "A Revolution in Commerce provides new insights into the rise of commercial modernity by demonstrating the remarkable role played by the law in ideological and institutional transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
Imperial Russia
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Author : Jane Burbank
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-22
Imperial Russia written by Jane Burbank and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-22 with History categories.
"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." —American Historial Review " . . . innovative and substantive research . . . " —The Russian Review "Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." —Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews "The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis." —Slavic Review Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is highlighted here seek to extend new thinking about the way imperial Russian history is studied and taught. Populating their essays are a varied lot of ordinary Russians of the 18th and 19th centuries, from a luxury-loving merchant and his extended family to reform-minded clerics and soldiers on the frontier. In contrast to much of traditional historical writing on Imperial Russia, which focused heavily on the causes of its demise, the contributors to this volume investigate the people and institutions that kept Imperial Russia functioning over a long period of time.
Autocracy In The Provinces
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Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Autocracy In The Provinces written by Valerie Ann Kivelson and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This book explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. The author situates Muscovite history within a comparative framework, demonstrating that seventeenth-century Russia was neither backward nor peculiar, but developed its own variant of the concurrent state-building processes of Western European monarchies.
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution 1789 1792
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Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution 1789 1792 written by Ambrogio A. Caiani 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 2012-09-20 with History categories.
The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy.