An English Absolutism?
Author: John Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
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Absolutism and Its Discontents
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780887381805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Author: Nicholas Phillipson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-02-26
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 052139242X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.
The Myth of Absolutism
Author: Nicholas Henshall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317899547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventionally, ``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.
Absolutism in Seventeenth-century Europe
Author: John Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation 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.
The Age of Absolutism (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1429109173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Age of Absolutism" (1650—1789) covers the final years of the last great European monarchies and the divestiture of monarchical power through reform and revolution. Emphasis is given to the absolute reign of Louis XIV of France, and the growth of constitutional monarchy in late-17th century England. Enlightenment thinkers, such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke, and their theorectical impact on the unraveling of royal power and the revolutions in France and America are discussed. Challenging map exercises and provocative review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Tests and answer keys included.
Piety and Politics
Author: Mary Fulbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-11-17
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521276337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics 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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Peter Heylyn
Author: Victoria Leigh Allred
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsolutism in Central Europe
Author: Peter Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 113474806X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsolutism 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.
