The Birth of Absolutism
The Birth of Absolutism

Author: Yves Marie Bercé

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780312158002

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Yves-Marie Berce's THE BIRTH OF ABSOLUTISM offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of France between the Edict of Nantes and the personal rule of Louis XIV, a period dominated by the names of two cardinals - Richelieu and Mazarin. Berce brings to the task not only familiarity with the sources and with French historiography, but also a thorough knowledge of the large body of English and American research on seventeenth-century France. This has enabled him to escape the diminishing perspective of the older French school, the 'grand history told from Paris' which reduced the course of events to an account of the inevitable triumph of the 'Royal state'. Berce emphasises the degree to which the French Crown remained beset by an aristocratic faction only too ready to avail itself of royal minorities, religious dissent or provincial grievances in the pursuit of its own ambitions.

The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661
The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661

Author: Alan James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1317878906

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This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal ‘absolutism’ on its head by redefining the French monarchy’s success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of absolutism, but that by satisfying long-established, traditional ambitions, cardinal ministers Richelieu and Mazarin undoubtedly made the confident, ambitious reign of the late century possible.

Absolutism in Central Europe
Absolutism in Central Europe

Author: Peter Wilson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 113474806X

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Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety of disciplines have defined and explained political development across what was formerly known as the 'age of absolutism'. It assesses whether the term still has utility as a tool of analysis and it explores the wider ramifications of the process of state-formation from the experience of central Europe from the early seventeenth century to the start of the nineteenth.

Lineages of the Absolutist State
Lineages of the Absolutist State

Author: Perry Anderson

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780860917106

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It begins with an enquiry into the reasons why the divergent social conditions in the more backward half of the continent should have produced political forms apparently similar to those of the more advanced West. The peculiarities, as well as affinities, of Eastern Absolutism as a distinct type of royal state, are examined. The variegated monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia are surveyed, and the lessons asked of the counter-example of Poland. Finally, the structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is taken as an external gauge by which the singularity of Absolutism as a European phenomenon is assessed. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State together into a single argument -- within their common limits --

The Age of Absolutism, 1648-1775
The Age of Absolutism, 1648-1775

Author: Maurice Ashley

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Illustrated the impact of diverse movements and various individuals on European history and on development in the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere.

Absolutism
Absolutism

Author: James Henderson Burns

Publisher:

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780718707811

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Birth of the Leviathan
Birth of the Leviathan

Author: Thomas Ertman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-01-13

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1139936085

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For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.

Paris in the Age of Absolutism
Paris in the Age of Absolutism

Author: Orest A. Ranum

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Provides a history of 17th-century Paris. Emphasis is given to architecture, interiors, streets, quarters, social and living conditions. It illuminates the importance of every major social group, from the nobility to the beggars, and describes their effects on society and on each other.

Science and the State
Science and the State

Author: John Gascoigne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107155673

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The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.