Author: Roland MousnierPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226543277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Volume 1
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226543277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Volume 1
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Political and administrative institutions cannot be understood unless one knows who is operating them and for whose benefit they function. In the first volume of this history, Mousnier analyzes such institutions in light of the prevailing social, economic, and ideological structures and shows how they shaped life in 17th- and 18th-century France. He traces the changing role of monarchical government, showing how it emerged over two centuries and why it failed. In a society divided by hierarchical social groups, conflicts among lineages, communities, and districts became inevitable. Aristocratic disdain, ancestral attachment to privileges, and autonomous powers looked upon as rights, made civil unrest, dislocation, and anarchy endemic. Mousnier examines this contention between classes as they faced each other across the institutional barriers of education, religion, economic resources, technology, means of defense and communication, and territorial and family ties. He shows why a monarchical state was necessary to preserve order within this fragmented society. Though it was intent on ensuring the survival of French society and the public good, the Absolute Monarchy was unable to maintain security, equilibrium, and cooperation among rival social groups. Discussing the feeble technology at its disposal and its weak means of governing, Mousnier points to the causes that brought the state to the limits of its resources. His comprehensive analysis will greatly interest students of the ancien régime and comparativists in political science and sociology as well.
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Volume 2
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226543284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Mousnier continues his massive and masterly history of France's transition from the Old Regime to the New. Mousnier's subject is the organization of the state, from the Council at the summit to the most humble clerks, guards, and attendants. He traces the gradual transformation of France from a judiciary state to a financial and executive bureaucracy, from a state and society based on hereditary statuses to one based on talents, personal capacities, and achievements, from the might of the sword to the power of the pen.
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
Author: Roland E. MousnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
Author: Roland E. MousnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 1598-1789
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher:
ISBN: 9782130428060
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789: Society and the state
Author: Roland MousnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jay M. SmithPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France’s past. The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential “revisionist” assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret’s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret’s revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time, they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century’s narrative about eighteenth-century France? The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb, Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright.