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The state in early modern France
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ISBN: 9780521113144 9780521130257 0521113148 0521130255 Year: 2009 Volume: 42 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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"A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through an analysis of early modern Europe's most important continental state. Incorporating recent scholarship on the French state and his own research, James Collins has revised the text throughout. He examines recent debates on 'absolutism'; presents a fresh interpretation of the Fronde and of French society in the eighteenth century; includes additional material on French colonies and overseas trade; and ties recent theoretical work into a new chapter on Louis XIV. He argues that the monarchical state came into being around 1630, matured between 1690 and 1730 and, in a new final chapter, shows that the period May 1787 to June 1789 was an interregnum, with the end of the Ancien Régime coming not in 1789 but with the dissolution of the Assembly of Notables on 25 May 1787"--Provided by publisher.

La crisis del siglo 17 bajo los últimos Austrias (1598-1700)
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ISBN: 8424912667 Year: 1988 Publisher: Madrid Gredos

La crisis del siglo XVII : la población, la economía, la sociedad
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ISBN: 842394994X Year: 1999

The state in early modern France
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ISBN: 0521387248 052138284X 1139170147 9781139170147 9780521382847 9780521387248 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most important continental state, France. Professor Collins abandons the traditional formulation of the absolute monarchy, and presents in its place a state that evolved to meet the needs of the French elites. Collins offers a detailed analysis of French society, to provide the broader context for the development of the French state. The model that emerges from his synthesis is one that relied more on persuasion and congruity of influence than on arbitrary authority, and Collins argues that fundamental changes in French society made the monarchical, ministerial state a dangerous anachronism by the 1750s, leading to political impasse by the second half of the eighteenth century. Collins offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the state relevant to historians and students of political thought.


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Los Borbones en el siglo 18 (1700-1808)
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ISBN: 8424914503 Year: 1991 Publisher: Madrid Gredos

La cultura espanola entre el Barroco y la ilustracion, circa 1680-1759
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ISBN: 8423948382 Year: 1985 Publisher: Madrid Espasa-Calpe

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Carlos III y la España de la Ilustración
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ISBN: 8420695831 Year: 1990 Publisher: Madrid Alianza

Spain in the seventeenth century
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ISBN: 0582072344 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Longman

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