The French Book And The European Book World
Download The French Book And The European Book World PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The French Book And The European Book World book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
The French Book and the European Book World
A series of linked studies of European print culture of the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print.
The European World 1500-1800
Provides a concise introduction to and overview of the centuries in Europe between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Features include: surveys of key topics written by an international team of historians; suggestions for seminar discussion and further reading; extracts from primary sources; a glossary; and chapter chronologies of major events.
The State in Early Modern France
Author: James B. Collins
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1995-09-28
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most important continental state, France. Professor Collins abandons the traditional formulation of the absolute monarchy, and presents in its place a state that evolved to meet the needs of the French elites. Collins offers a detailed analysis of French society, to provide the broader context for the development of the French state. The model that emerges from his synthesis is one that relied more on persuasion and congruity of influence than on arbitrary authority, and Collins argues that fundamental changes in French society made the monarchical, ministerial state a dangerous anachronism by the 1750s, leading to political impasse by the second half of the eighteenth century. Collins offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the state relevant to historians and students of political thought.