Absolute monarchy on the frontiers
Absolute monarchy on the frontiers

Author: Phil McCluskey

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1526110504

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French territorial ambitions and consequent military activity during the reign of Louis XIV ensured that a number of territories bordering on France were subject to military occupation for strategic reasons from the 1660s onwards. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study presents the occupation of two of these territories, Lorraine and Savoy, from a comparative perspective. It investigates the aims and intentions of the French monarchy in occupying these regions, the problems of administering them, and French relations with key local elite groups. Absolute monarchy on the frontiers makes a significant contribution to understanding this crucial era in the development of civil-military relations. It also places the occupations of Lorraine and Savoy within the framework of recent scholarship on early modern border societies and frontiers, and on the practice of ‘absolutism’ at the frontiers of the French kingdom. The book will appeal particularly to scholars and students of early modern France and Europe.

Absolute Monarchy on the Frontiers
Absolute Monarchy on the Frontiers

Author: Phil McCluskey

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Part III: The local elites under French occupation -- 5. The nobilities -- 6. The administrative elites -- 7. The church -- Conclusions -- Appendix Officers of the sovereign companies of Savoy, 1690-1713 -- Select bibliography -- Index

Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe
Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe

Author: Cesare Cuttica

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 131732224X

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The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

The Frontiers of Mission
The Frontiers of Mission

Author: Alison Forrestal

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9004325174

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In exploring the shifting realities of missionary experience during the course of imperialist ventures and the Catholic Reformation, The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism provides a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume tests the assumption that uniformity and co-ordination governed early modern missionary enterprise, and examines the effects of distance and de-centering on a variety of missionaries and religious orders. Its essays focus squarely on the experiences of the missionaries themselves to offer a nuanced consideration of the meaning of ‘missionary Catholicism’, and its evolving relationship with newly discovered cultures and political and ecclesiastical authorities.

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Author: William Doyle

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2001-08-23

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0192853961

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Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.

"By My Absolute Royal Authority"

Author: John B. Owens

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781580462013

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"This book maps part of this unfamiliar terrain through a microhistory of an extended, high-profile lawsuit that was carefully watched by generations of Castilian leaders. Justices from the late fifteenth century to the reign of Philip II had difficulty resolving the conflict because the proper exercise of "absolute royal authority" was itself the central legal issue and the dispute pitted against each other members of important groups who demonstrated a tendency to give prominence to different interpretive schemes as they tried to comprehend their world.

Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

Author: Richard Boyd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1107009634

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This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.

Frontiers of Globalization Research:
Frontiers of Globalization Research:

Author: Ino Rossi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-03-21

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 038733596X

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To bring this volume together, the editor asked leading scholars in the field of globalization to outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The resulting book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization. Theoretical reviews are complemented by substantive chapters and methodological analyses. Contributors include scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and political science. These writings have been organized into four sections: theoretical perspectives and cultural globalization, economic globalization, political globalization, and methodological approaches.

Families and Frontiers
Families and Frontiers

Author: Kathryn Edwards

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 900447577X

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As put forth by Edwards, the eastern duchy and the western county of Burgundy constituted a frontier society from the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 until 1540. Through detailed case studies and family reconstructions of elites from the Saône River valley, specifically the cities of Dijon, Dole, and Besançon, this book examines the social, cultural, political, and economic relationships of the Burgundians on a local level. Edwards successfully challenges the national models still frequently used in modern historiography and offers a provocative alternative to better understand this anomalous area and the creation of pre-modern regional identity.