The Myth of Absolutism : Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy PDF
by Nicholas Henshall
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Conventionally, ``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.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:06/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781317899549
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:06/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781317899549