Download or read book Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy written by Julian Swann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. It sheds new light on the government of Louis XIV, the history of Burgundy and the wider political history of eighteenth-century France.
Download or read book Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy written by Julian Swann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. Although not a representative institution in any modern sense, the Estates were constantly engaged in a process of bargaining with the French crown, and this book examines that relationship under the Ancien Régime. Julian Swann analyses the organization, membership and powers of the Estates and explores their administration, their struggles for power with rival institutions and their relationship with the crown and with the Burgundian people. The Estates proved remarkably resilient when confronted by the challenges posed by the Bourbon monarchy, and by the reign of Louis XVI they were seemingly more powerful than ever. However the desire to protect their privileges and to extend their authority had not been accompanied by an attempt to forge a meaningful relationship with the people they claimed to serve.
Download or read book The Myth of Absolutism written by Nicholas Henshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventionally, ``absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism -- the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of ``absolutism'' in action -- continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England -- dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.
Download or read book Absolutism in Seventeenth century Europe written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties. This was justified by a theory stressing the monarchs absolute power and his duty to place the good of his state before particular interests. The essays of this volume analyse this process in states at very different stages of economic and political development and assess the great gulf that often existed between the monarchs power in theory and in practice.
Download or read book Louis XIV and Absolutism written by William Beik and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of documents with commentary explores the meaning of absolute monarchy by examining how Louis XIV of France became one of Europe’s most famous and successful rulers. In the introduction, William Beik succinctly integrates the theoretical and practical nature of absolutism and its implications for the development of European states and society. The documents, newly translated and carefully selected for their readability, examine the problems of the Fronde, Colbert’s grasp of the economic and fiscal dimensions of the kingdom, the taming of the rural nobility, the interaction of royal ministers and provincial authorities, the repression of Jansenists and Protestants, popular rebellions, and royal image-making. Explanatory notes, a chronology, a map, a geneaology chart, and 9 striking images further strengthen this volume’s usefulness in the undergraduate classroom.
Download or read book A Treatise of Monarchy written by Philip Hunton and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treatise of Monarchy - Containing two parts. I. Concerning monarchy in general. II. Concerning this particular monarchy, also a vindication of the said treatise is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1689. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book In Doubt for the Monarchy Autocratic Modernization in Saudi Arabia written by Iris Wurm and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism 1660 1697 written by Anthony F. Upton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.
Download or read book Science and the State written by John Gascoigne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.
Download or read book Louis XIV and Absolution written by Ragnhild Marie Hatton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriarcha Or The Natural Power of Kings written by Robert Filmer and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patrons Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth century France written by Sharon Kettering and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.
Download or read book The Boundaries of the Republic written by Mary Dewhurst Lewis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.
Download or read book The Fall of the French Monarchy 1787 1792 written by Michel Vovelle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in The French Revolution Series, on the fall of the French monarchy 1787-1792.
Download or read book Monarchy Transformed written by Robert von Friedeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. John I of Portugal (1358-1433), Charles VII (1403-1461) and Louis XI (1423-1483) of France, Henry VII and Henry VIII of England (1457-1509, 1509-1553), Isabella of Castile (1474-1504) and Ferdinand of Aragon (1479-1516) were, by improving royal administration, by bringing more continuity to communication with their estates and by introducing more regular taxation, all seen to have served that goal. In this view, princes were assigned to the role of developing and implementing the sinews of state as a sovereign entity characterized by the coherence of its territorial borders and its central administration and government. They shed medieval traditions of counsel and instead enforced relations of obedience toward the emerging 'state'."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century Composite State written by David Hayton and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in eighteenth-century Europe employs a comparative approach to sustain the case for the inclusion of Ireland within this interpretive framework. Written by acknowledged experts, the collection uniquely combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of some of the major composite states of Europe. Chapters on Irish legislation relating to the confessional state, public finance, internal security and social and economic `improvement' are complemented by accounts of representative institutions in France, Hungary and Poland-Lithuania. A reflective introduction and conclusion set the collection in the wider historical and interpretive context. The volume thus amplifies our understanding of the nature of the European composite state and the deliberations of the Irish parliament. --Book Jacket.
