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The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy Nicholas Henshall 1st edition
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The Myth of Absolutism: Change & Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy
Nicholas Henshall
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.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 6, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138180505 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
