1992
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Conventionally,
absolutism'' in early-modern Europe has suggested unfettered autocracy and despotism—the erosion of rights, the centralisation of decision-making, the loss of liberty. Everything, in a word, that was un-British but characteristic of ancien-regime France. Recently historians have questioned such comfortably simplistic views. This lively investigation of absolutism'' in action—continent-wide but centred on a detailed comparison of France and England—dissolves the traditional picture to reveal a much more complex reality; and in so doing illuminates the varied ways in which early-modern Europe was governed.Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
25
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