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Author:   Julian Swann (, Birkbeck College) ,  Joël Félix (, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   184
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.731kg
ISBN:  

9780197265383

ISBN 10:   0197265383
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Julian Swann: Introduction: The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy 2: Jean-Philippe Poussou: How, and how not, to use the concept of crisis in the reign of Louis XVI 3: Michael Broers: The End of a Golden Age or the Implosion of a False Absolutism? The Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from Absolutism to Revolution, 1685-1814 4: Julian Swann: From servant of the king to ""idol of the nation"": The breakdown of personal monarchy in Louis XVI's France 5: Munro Price: The maréchal de Castries and the pre-revolution 6: Joël Félix: The problem with Necker's Compte Rendu au Roi (1781) 7: Nigel Aston: Necker and aristocratic constitutionalism: the British connection 8: David A. Bell: The Culture of War in Europe, 1750-1815 9: Thomas E. Kaiser: The Austrian Alliance, the Seven Years' War, and the Emergence of a French 'National' Foreign Policy, 1756-1790 10: Hamish Scott: A Model of Conduct from the Age of Chivalry?: Honour, International Decline and the End of the Bourbon Monarchy 11: Olivier Chaline: Franco-British naval rivalry and the crisis of the monarchy (1759-1789) 12: Mike Rapport: 'Complaints Lost in the Wind'. French India and the Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: a Global Dimension? 13: Guy Rowlands: The Maison militaire du Roi and the disintegration of the Old Regime 14: Michel Figeac: The crisis of the nobility at the twilight of the monarchy 15: Clarisse Coulomb: The making of a bourgeois identity? Urban histories and their historians in eighteenth-century France 16: T.C.W. Blanning: William 'Bill' Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution

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The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy has been eagerly awaited and it certainly deserves a place on undergraduate reading lists for the French Revolution, as well as a wider readership. Malcolm Crook, French History

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Julian Swann is a professor at Birkbeck College. Joël Félix is a professor at the University of Redding.

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