TY - BOOK ID - 77902823 TI - A world of paper AU - Rule, John C AU - Trotter, Ben S PY - 2014 SN - 0773592148 9780773592148 9780773543706 0773543708 9780773592155 0773592156 PB - Montreal DB - UniCat KW - Bureaucracy KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Political science KW - Public administration KW - Organizational sociology KW - History KW - France KW - Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, KW - Louis KW - France. KW - Management KW - History. KW - Officials and employees KW - Lodewijk KW - le Roi-Soleil KW - Louis le Grand KW - de Zonnekoning KW - Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, KW - De Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, KW - Torcy, J. B. Colbert KW - Torcy, KW - M.A.E. KW - MAE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902823 AB - Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. This book offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. ER -