James B. Collins

The State in Early Modern France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New edition of James Collins's acclaimed textbook that challenges longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 783g
• ISBN-13: 9780521113144
• ISBN-10: 0521113148
• Artikelnr.: 26552695

Autorenporträt

James B. Collins is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His previous publications include From Tribes to Nation: The Making of France, c.500¿1799 (2002), The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (2002) and Classes, Estates and Order in Early Modern Brittany (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition; Chronology of events; Genealogy; Glossary; Historical background: the growth of the French state to 1627; 1. The crucible, 1620s
30s; 2. The twenty years' crisis, 1635
54; 3. Louis XIV: laying the foundation, 1654
83; 4. The debacle; 5. The mature monarchical state; 6. A new France takes shape; 7. Reform, renewal, collapse; 8. The interregnum, 1787
9.