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In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, an international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.The idea of the Ancien Régime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Régime's main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them.In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Régime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Régime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.

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Author:   William Doyle (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.038kg
ISBN:  

9780198713616

ISBN 10:   0198713614
Pages:   598
Publication Date:   03 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: William Doyle: Introduction Section I: Government 2: Peter R. Campbell: Absolute Monarchy 3: Hamish Scott: Diplomacy 4: David Parrott: Armed Forces 5: Joël Félix: Finance 6: Julian Swann: Parlements and Provincial Estates Section II: Society 7: John Shovlin: Nobility 8: Sarah Maza: Bourgeoisie 9: Gail Bossenga: Estates, Orders, and Corps 10: Alan Forrest: Poverty 11: Julia Hardwick: Gender Section III: Economy 12: Jack A. Goldstone: Demography 13: Anthony Crubaugh: Feudalism 14: Peter M. Jones: Agriculture 15: Silvia Marzagalli: Commerce 16: William Doyle: Slavery and Serfdom Section IV: Religion 17: Nigel Aston: The Established Church 18: Robin Briggs: Popular Religion 19: Thomas O'Connor: Jansenism 20: Marisa Linton: Dissent and Toleration Section V: Culture 21: Dorinda Outram: Education 22: Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire: Sociability 23: Mark Ledbury: Patronage 24: Thomas E. Kaiser: The Public Sphere Section VI: Solvents? 25: Thomas Munck: Enlightenment 26: Christine MacLeod and Alessandro Nuvolari: Technological Change 27: Michael Rapport: Revolution Section VII: Test Cases 28: Michael Broers: The Napoleonic Regimes 29: Julian Hoppit: Reformed and Unreformed Britain, 1689-1801 30: Christopher Clark: Colonial America 31: Peter H. Wilson: The Old Reich 32: William Doyle: Conclusion Index

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[a] distinguished volume ... it is to be given a warm welcome and its editor is to be congratulated on having assembled such a distinguished international team. Tim Blanning, English Historical Review

[a] distinguished volume ... it is to be given a warm welcome and its editor is to be congratulated on having assembled such a distinguished international team. * Tim Blanning, English Historical Review *

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William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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