The crisis of the absolute monarchy France from old regime to Revolution

The crisis of the absolute monarchy : France from old regime to Revolution

For generations of historians, 1789 was a defining moment in world history and it has been said to mark, amongst other things, the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the birth of modernity, the rise of nationalism or even the invention of ideology. To explain an event of such magnitude it was understandabl...

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Weitere Verfasser: Swann, Julian (HerausgeberIn), Félix, Joël 1960- (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Proceedings of the British Academy 184
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings of the British Academy
Schlagworte:Monarchy Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 Frankreich Absolutismus Ancien régime Krise Geschichte 1750-1789 Französische Revolution Vorgeschichte
Umfang:XIV, 337 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: The crisis of the absolute monarchy Julian Swann
  • How, and how not, to use the concept of crisis in the reign of Louis XVI Jean-Pierre Poussou
  • The end of a golden age or the implosion of a false absolutism? : the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from absolutism to revolution, 1685-1814 Michael Broers
  • From servant of the king to "idol of the nation" : the breakdown of personal monarchy in Louis XVI's France Julian Swann
  • The maréchal de Castries and the pre-revolution Munro Price
  • The problem with Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) Joël Félix
  • Necker and aristocratic constitutionalism : the British connection Nigel Aston
  • The culture of war in Europe, 1750-1815 David A. Bell
  • The Austrian alliance, the Seven Years' War and the emergence of a French "national" foreign policy, 1756-1790 Thomas E. Kaiser
  • A model of conduct from the age of chivalry? : honour, international decline and the end of the Bourbon monarchy Hamish Scott
  • Franco-British naval rivalry and the crisis of the monarchy, 1759-1789 Olivier Chaline
  • "Complaints lost in the wind" : French India and the crisis of the absolute monarchy: a global dimension? Mike Rapport
  • The Maison militaire du roi and the disintegration of the old regime Guy Rowlands
  • The crisis of the nobility at the twilight of the monarchy Michel Figeac
  • The making of a bourgeois identity? : urban histories and their historians in eighteenth-century France
  • William "Bill" Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution / Tim Blanning.