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Author: Julian Swann Publisher: OUP/British Academy ISBN: 9780197265383 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century France and offers a new interpretation of the origins of the Revolution of 1789.
Author: Julian Swann Publisher: OUP/British Academy ISBN: 9780197265383 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century France and offers a new interpretation of the origins of the Revolution of 1789.
Author: Darryl Dee Publisher: University Rochester Press ISBN: 1580463037 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
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Driven by a desire for glory and renown, Louis XIV presided over France's last great burst of territorial expansion in Europe. During the first three decades of his rule, his armies conquered numerous territories along France's borders. After 1688, however, the tide of conquest turned as the kingdom was plunged into crisis. For the remainder of his reign, the king and his people endured wars against grand alliances of European powers, ecological disasters, economic depression, state bankruptcy, and demographic stagnation. Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France examines these central yet understudied aspects of the age of the Sun King through the experience of Franche-Comté, a possession of the Spanish empire with a long history of autonomy, conquered by Louis XIV in 1674. Dee's detailed research reconstructs the ensuing dialogue -- sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant -- between the king and the elites who ruled this province. The integration of Franche-Comté into France proved to be a protracted process involving confrontation, negotiation, and compromise. The resulting regime was then severely tested by the challenges of Louis XIV's late reign; its survival demonstrated how the king had brought a distinctly early modern state to the height of its development. This study offers significant new insights on the growth of the territorial state in early modern Europe, the nature of the French absolute monarchy, and the political legacy of the Sun King. Darryl Dee is Assistant Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Author: Julian Swann Publisher: ISBN: 9780191760433 Category : France Languages : en Pages : 337
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For generations of historians, 1789 was a defining moment in world history and it has been said to mark, amongst other things, the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the birth of modernity, the rise of nationalism or even the invention of ideology. To explain an event of such magnitude it was understandable that historians should seek no less portentous explanations of its origins and that factors such as the rise of capitalism, class struggle or the impact of the Enlightenment were cited as the long-term causes of Revolution. In recent years, however, there has been a preoccupation with the actual course of the Revolution. The present collection, by contrast, focuses once again upon the origins of the dramatic events within and beyond France which transformed later eighteenth-century Europe so comprehensively and established the terms of political and social struggle for the next two centuries.
Author: Cesare Cuttica Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131732224X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 312
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The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.
Author: Geoffrey Treasure Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134980590 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 436
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Mazarin was the model statesman of the early modern period in French history. This book follows his career from pupil of the Jesuits, through legate in Paris and Avignon, to service for Louis XIII and beyond. Mazarin's role in the survival of absolute monarchy during the upheavals of the Fronde and his guidance of the young Louis XIV are given full weight. His crucial part in many diplomatic exchanges, and in particular those which brought an end to the Thirty Years War and the Franco-Spanish War, is examined in detail. His life is placed in the context of a study of the times, highlighting the rapidly changing nature of government.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1501172514 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today’s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next.
Author: James I (King of England) Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies ISBN: 9780969751267 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
Author: Roy C. Bridges Publisher: ISBN: Category : Europe Languages : en Pages : 352
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"This book is a collection of about 100 documents designed to act as ad aid to study for sixth form, college and university students who are covering European history from the seventeenth century to the present day. This collection of documents elaborates certain themes in the the history of Europe since 1648. It has grown out of the working experience of a group of university teachers concerned to introduce first-year university students to methods of historical study by reference to contemporary material. Each theme is an aspect of the basic process of European history in the modern era which is taken to be the continent and their readjustment to rising super-powers on the oceanic and continental frontiers and to changing conditions in Africa and Asia. The varied attempts by European governments and statesmen to confront the political and social problems of a period of accelerating change are illustrated while further chapters provide the opportunity of studying in some depth two occasions when particularly important new ideas and expedients were tested--the French and Russian Revolutions. The backgrounds are considered not only from the point of view of international relations but also in wider and deeper perspectives. The varying character of the relationship between Europe and the wider world is the other principal theme of the collection. There are ten chapters, each divided into sections. Each section contains one of more documents illustrating a particular topic. The editors have not aimed at comprehensive treatment of the period, but rather have chosen to elaborate certain themes. These themes they believe to be extremely important ones which do provide at least one illuminating means of approaching recent European History. While all the documents in the collection should prove useful as illustrative material, most of them have been selected with particular reference to their usefulness as material for group discussions. it seems to the editors desirable that such material should direct discussion outwards to wide controversial issues and major themes in recent European History but at the same time make it possible for students to elucidate some detailed references and to gain the benefit of narrowing the focus of their attention at certain points. Whilst bearing these aims in mind, the editors have tried also to provide sufficient variety of material to make it possible for tutors to be flexible in their approaches; thus for example, the problem of the 'New Imperialism' could be studied with the aid of any one or all of four or five documents. In pursuit of these aims, the editors have chosen documents from a wide variety of sources. Whilst including a few familiar documents, the collection generally avoids hackneyed material. Some of the choices are here translated into English for the first time."--Front and back flaps of book jacket.
Author: Julian Swann
Author: Julian Swann
Author: Darryl Dee
Author: Julian Swann
Author: Cesare Cuttica
Author: Geoffrey Treasure
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
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Author: Bertha Meriton Gardiner
Author: James I (King of England)
Author: Roy C. Bridges