Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany
Author(s): James B. Collins (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: January 30, 2003
Language: English
Print length: 332 pages
ISBN-10: 0521533147
ISBN-13: 9780521533140
Book Description
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 to much received wisdom, Professor Collins argues that absolutism was more facade than reality, and that French society was much more mobile than generally believed.
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Book Description
Uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society.
Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany
Author(s): James B. Collins (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: April 29, 1994
Language: English
Print length: 331 pages
ISBN-10: 0521440726
ISBN-13: 9780521440721
Book Description
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 to much received wisdom, Professor Collins argues that absolutism was more facade than reality, and that French society was much more mobile than generally believed.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society.
Book Description
This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. Professor Collins’s main endeavour is to combine social and political/institutional history, so long separated in works on this field.
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