The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites: The Politics of Culture, 1650-1750 (European History in Perspective, 48)

By the mid-sevententh century several European monarchies were collapsing. Focusing on a key elite bonding strategy, this new survey shows how monarchs resolved to work with, rather than against, their elites. Nicholas Henshall's synthesis offers an argument for the coherence of the period - as the height of European monarchy and its elites.

The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites: The Politics of Culture, 1650-1750 (European History in Perspective)

History

Henshall, Nicholas

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

By the mid-sevententh century several European monarchies were collapsing. Focusing on a key elite bonding strategy, this new survey shows how monarchs resolved to work with, rather than against, their elites. Nicholas Henshall's synthesis offers an argument for the coherence of the period - as the height of European monarchy and its elites.

Red Globe Press

The course of modern European History has been influenced greatly by the challenge of Communism. In theory it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice it spawned inegalitarian, authoritarian and, in some instances, monstrous regimes in the former Soviet Union and East Europe.This study re-examines the history of European Communism from its theoretical origins in the work of Marx and Engels in the mid-nineteenth century until the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Ronald Kowalski reappraises Marx's thinking and points out that his intellectual legacy was open to a variety of interpretations often at odds with his own views. Kowalski also questions Lenin's professed Marxist credentials and the extent to which his additions to Marxist theory were central to the key issue in the history of Communism: why did the egalitarian and libertarian dreams raised by the Russian Revolution degenerate into Stalinist authoritarianism and terror? Furthermore, why did Communism fail in West Europe while it was able to come to power in East Europe?Concluding with an analysis of the revolutions which swept away the Communist regimes in East Europe and two years later in the Soviet Union itself, this is an essential introduction to the history of a political force that dominated parts of Europe until the end of the twentieth century.

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The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy

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.

Routledge

This text examines the early modern period and begins by focusing on France, examining the Valois and Bourbon monarchs and the modes of operation they employed. The second part of the text looks at early modern Europe, making the distinction between "absolute" and "limited" monarchs.

The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy

World

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites: The Politics of Culture, 1650-1750 (European History in Perspective)

The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites: The Politics of Culture, 1650-1750 (European History in Perspective, 48)

Ehip;Standing Order Sbn (Pr)

The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy

The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy

The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy