Provincial power and absolute monarchy : the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790 / Julian Swann.
Material type: TextSeries: New studies in European historyPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. : New York, NY, USA : [(c)2003.]; Cambridge University Press, [(c)2003.]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 460 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0511062737
- 9780511062735
- 0511121504
- 9780511121500
- 0511071191
- 9780511071195
- 9786610161508
- 661016150X
- 9780521827676
- 0521827671
- JN2417.87
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | JN2417.87 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocm57256341\ |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
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