State in Early Modern France

Informationen zum Autor James B. Collins is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His previous publications include From Tribes to Nation: The Making of France, c.500-1799 (2002), The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (2002) and Classes, Estates and Order in Early Modern Brittany (1994). Klappentext New edition of James Collins's acclaimed textbook that challenges longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy. Zusammenfassung This new edition of James Collins's acclaimed textbook has been revised throughout! incorporating the extensive recent scholarship on the French state. It examines the recent debates on 'absolutism'; presents fresh interpretations of the Fronde and of French society in the eighteenth century; and includes a new chapter on Louis XIV. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the second edition; Chronology of events; Genealogy; Glossary; Historical background: the growth of the French state to 1627; 1. The crucible, 1620s-30s; 2. The twenty years' crisis, 1635-54; 3. Louis XIV: laying the foundation, 1654-83; 4. The debacle; 5. The mature monarchical state; 6. A new France takes shape; 7. Reform, renewal, collapse; 8. The interregnum, 1787-9.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James B. Collins, James B. (Georgetown University Collins, JamesB Collins
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521130257
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13025-7
• Seiten: 438
• Serie: New Approaches to European History
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte