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Follies of power
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ISBN: 9780521767675 9780511806742 9781107464209 9780511516900 0511516908 9780511719547 051171954X 0511806744 0521767679 1107194504 9781107194502 1282539426 9781282539426 9786612539428 6612539429 0511719094 9780511719097 0511515626 9780511515620 0511718632 9780511718632 110746420X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book look at the disastrous consequences of the vision at work - in the Middle East and in Europe. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 assess the limits of American power. Chapter 7 discusses the problems of order and coexistence in a world that is not unipolar but increasingly plural. It speculates on the possible contributions and likely fate of both 'Old America' and 'New Europe' as models for organizing the future. America's own constitutional equilibrium, David Calleo argues, increasingly requires friendly balancing from Europe. Both sides of the West must liberate their imaginations from past triumphs to face their responsibilities to the new world and to each other.


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Expansion and crisis in Louis XIV's France : Franche-Comte and absolute monarchy, 1674-1715
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ISBN: 1282895060 9786612895067 1580467229 1580463037 Year: 2009 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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'Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France' examines these central yet understudied aspects of the age of the Sun King through the experience of Franche-Comté, a possession of the Spanish empire with a long history of autonomy, conquered by Louis XIV in 1674. Dee's detailed research reconstructs the ensuing dialogue - sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant - between the king and the elites who ruled this province. The integration of Franche-Comté into France proved to be a protracted process involving confrontation, negotiation, and compromise. The resulting regime was then severely tested by the challenges of Louis XIV's late reign; its survival demonstrated how the king had brought a distinctly early modern state to the height of its development. This study offers significant new insights on the growth of the territorial state in early modern Europe, the nature of the French absolute monarchy, and the political legacy of the Sun King. Darryl Dee is assistant professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.

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Franche-Comté (France) --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Haute-Bourgogne (France) --- Burgundy (County) --- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France) --- History --- Territorial expansion --- Eroberung --- Expansionspolitik --- Integration --- Territorial expansion. --- HISTORY --- HISTORY. --- Modern --- General. --- Politische Integration --- Annexion --- Imperialismus --- Hegemonie --- Einnahme --- Entdeckung --- Eroberer --- Unterjochung --- Absolute Monarchy. --- Conquest. --- Darryl Dee. --- Demographic Stagnation. --- Early Modern Europe. --- Ecological Disasters. --- Economic Depression. --- France. --- Franche-Comté. --- Louis XIV. --- State Bankruptcy. --- Territorial State. --- Wars. --- Wilfrid Laurier University. --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Franche-Comte (France)

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