Provincial power and absolute monarchy : the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790 / Julian Swann
- Author
- Swann, Julian
- Published
- Cambridge, U.K. : New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 460 pages) : illustrations, maps
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Appendices; Map; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Historians, absolute monarchy and the provincial estates; CHAPTER 2 Ancien régime Burgundy; CHAPTER 3 The Estates General of Burgundy; CHAPTER 4 Nosseigneurs les élus and the officers of the Estates; CHAPTER 5 The provincial administration: authority and enforcement; CHAPTER 6 'It's raining taxes'. Paying for the Sun King, 1661-1715; CHAPTER 7 Provincial administration in an age of iron, 1661-1715.
- Summary
- This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. It sheds new light on the government of Louis XIV, the history of Burgundy and the wider political history of eighteenth-century France.
- Report Numbers
- MYILIB_CUp
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0511062737 (electronic bk.)
9780511062735 (electronic bk.)
0511121504 (electronic bk.)
9780511121500 (electronic bk.)
0511071191
9780511071195
9786610161508
661016150X
9780521827676
0521827671
1107138310
9781107138315
1280161507
9781280161506
0511204965
9780511204968
0511307829
9780511307829
0511496648
9780511496646
0521827671 (Cloth) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-446) and index.
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