This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. It abandons the old framework that opposed orders to classes, and instead seeks to find the central meaning of the evolution of the French state in the maintenance of order (especially the preservation of property). Professor Collins's main purpose, illustrated by his fusion of economic, social and institutional approaches, is to combine social and political/institutional history, so long separated in works on this field. Contrary...
This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern Fre...
This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.
Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period.
Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system
Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe.
Includes an article translated into English for...
This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.
This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.
Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period.
Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system
Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe.
Includes an article translated into English for...
This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.
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...
A new edition of James Collins's acclaimed synthesis that challenged longstanding views of the origins of modern states and absolute monarchy through ...
