The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy

From the Old Regime to the French Revolution
Herausgeber: Swann, Julian; Félix, Joël

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century France and offers a new interpretation of the origins of the Revolution of 1789.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780197265383
• ISBN-10: 0197265383
• Artikelnr.: 47215032

Autorenporträt

Julian Swann is a professor at Birkbeck College. Joël Félix is a professor at the University of Redding.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Julian Swann: Introduction: The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy
* 2: Jean-Philippe Poussou: How, and how not, to use the concept of
crisis in the reign of Louis XVI
* 3: Michael Broers: The End of a Golden Age or the Implosion of a
False Absolutism? The Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from Absolutism to
Revolution, 1685-1814
* 4: Julian Swann: From servant of the king to "idol of the nation":
The breakdown of personal monarchy in Louis XVI's France
* 5: Munro Price: The maréchal de Castries and the pre-revolution
* 6: Joël Félix: The problem with Necker's Compte Rendu au Roi (1781)
* 7: Nigel Aston: Necker and aristocratic constitutionalism: the
British connection
* 8: David A. Bell: The Culture of War in Europe, 1750-1815
* 9: Thomas E. Kaiser: The Austrian Alliance, the Seven Years' War, and
the Emergence of a French 'National' Foreign Policy, 1756-1790
* 10: Hamish Scott: A Model of Conduct from the Age of Chivalry?:
Honour, International Decline and the End of the Bourbon Monarchy
* 11: Olivier Chaline: Franco-British naval rivalry and the crisis of
the monarchy (1759-1789)
* 12: Mike Rapport: 'Complaints Lost in the Wind'. French India and the
Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: a Global Dimension?
* 13: Guy Rowlands: The Maison militaire du Roi and the disintegration
of the Old Regime
* 14: Michel Figeac: The crisis of the nobility at the twilight of the
monarchy
* 15: Clarisse Coulomb: The making of a bourgeois identity? Urban
histories and their historians in eighteenth-century France
* 16: T.C.W. Blanning: William 'Bill' Doyle and the Origins of the
French Revolution