The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: P to Periodical PDF Download

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230

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Author: Douglas Dakin
Publisher: New York : Octagon Books
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521368070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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This 1991 book was the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet argues in the Politics that a general society of the entire human race, governed by Christian charity, has given way (after the Fall) to the necessity of politcs, law, and absolute hereditary monarchy. That monarchy - seen as natural, universal and divinely ordained (beginning with David and Solomon) is defended in the first half of the book. The last part, added soon before Bossuet's death, goes on to take up the rights of the Church, the distinction between absolutism and arbitrariness, and causes of just war. Patrick Riley has provided full supporting materials including a chronology, guide to further reading, and a lucid introduction placing Bossuet in his historical and intellectual context.

Author: J. F. Bosher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521077644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of profit-seeking accountants - 'capitalists', in the language of the time - stood in the way of reform and even of clear accounting until governments of the French Revolution eventually nationalized the financial system and changed it 'from capitalism into a bureaucracy'. From his close study of the administrative changes Professor Bosher concludes that the National Assembly planned to guard the public finances by bureaucratic organization. 'With a vision of mechanical efficiency and articulation', he writes, 'systems of clock-like checks and balances such as eighteenth-century Frenchmen found everywhere, even in nature itself, the revolutionary planners hoped to prevent corruption, putting their faith in the virtues of organization to offset the vices of the individual men.'

Author: Keith M. Baker
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ISBN: 9780608209821
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Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: William Doyle
Publisher: Palgrave
ISBN: 9780333386965
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Published in 1986 as one of the first titles in the "Studies in European History" series, this essay quickly established itself as the most concise and accessible guide to the meanings and hidden complexities of an apparently straightforward historical category, both in the history of France and Europe as a whole. A second edition now incorporates material which has widened and advanced the historical debate in the intervening years, and includes a completely revised and expanded bibliography.

Author: France. Parlement de Paris
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Languages : fr
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Languages : fr
Pages : 18

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