Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles

Cultural/historical sociologist links design and engineering at Versailles to displays of state power.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary of French terms; 1. The culture of land and the territorial state; 2. Military ambitions and territorial gardens; 3. Material innovation and cultural identity; 4. Techniques of material mobilization; 5. Social choreography and the politics of place; 6. Naturalizing power in the new state; 7. A history of material power; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

Chandra Mukerji challenges the association of state power with socials structures alone in a fascinating cultural analysis of how Louis XIV used Versailles to equate lawlike land control with the order of nature, showcasing distinctively French skills and design in a formal paralleling of military feats of engineering.

Product details

• Authors: Chandra Mukerji
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editor), Steven Seidman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521496759
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49675-9
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 977 g
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories