| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 375 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in early modern history |
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Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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| Summary |
Why was Louis XIV successful in pacifying the same aristocrats who had caused so much trouble for Richelieu and Mazarin? What role did absolutism play in reinforming or changing the traditional social system in seventeenth-century France? In this analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism, Professor Beik argues that the answers to these questions lie in the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown. Starting with a critical examination of current approaches to state and society by institutional, social, 'Annales', and Marxist historians, he calls for a new class analysis based on the findings of all these schools. This is the first appearance as a paperback of Professor Beik's book, which won the 1986 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize awarded by the American historical Association for the year's outstanding work in European history |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1969? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-368) and index |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- 17th century
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Languedoc (France) -- Politics and government
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Languedoc (France) -- Social conditions
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France |
| Subject |
France -- Languedoc
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511583797 |
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0511583796 |
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