The Myth of Absolutism

Released on by Nicholas Henshall
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  • The Myth of Absolutism Book Detail

  • Author : Nicholas Henshall
  • Release Date : 2014-06-06
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 13 : 1317899547
  • File Size : 53,53 MB
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The Myth of Absolutism by Nicholas Henshall PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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