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23 lip 2022 · An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe. Includes bibliographical references and index.
10 lis 2011 · In this book, a team of contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the Ancien Régime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace.
We owe the idea of the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution. 1 As soon as it became clear, during the summer of 1788, that the structure and apparatus of authority in France was collapsing, people began to look forward to an era of change.
In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, an international team of 30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.
In The Oxford Handbook of the Old Regime , an international team of 30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the Old Regime ( ancien regime ) was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace.
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE ANCIEN REGIME Edited by WILLIAM DOYLE OXJFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. CONTENTS List of Contributors i. ix 1. Introduction 1 WILLIAM DOYLE PART I. GOVERNMENT 2. Absolute Monarchy 11 PETER R. CAMPBELL 3. Diplomacy 39 HAMISH SCOTT 4. Armed Forces 59 DAVID PARROTT 5. Finances 75
“An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Europe”
