[PDF] Old Regime France 1648 1788 eBook

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198731302

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The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century elapsed befoer this hegemony waschallenged, and even then the collapse of monarchy in 1788 took most people by surprise. This book, bringing together an authoritative international panel of historians, portrays and analyses the life of France between two revolutions, a time later known as the old regime. All aspects of French lifeare covered: the economy, social development, religion and culture, French activity overseas, and not least politics and public life, where our understanding has been completely renewed over recent years. A detailed chronology and full bibliography complete this compelling analysis of an age behindwhose calm and assured facade forces were developing which were to shape a very different country and continent.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2001-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0191586781

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The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century elapsed befoer this hegemony was challenged, and even then the collapse of monarchy in 1788 took most people by surprise. This book, bringing together an authoritative international panel of historians, portrays and analyses the life of France between two revolutions, a time later known as the old regime. All aspects of French life are covered: the economy, social development, religion and culture, French activity overseas, and not least politics and public life, where our understanding has been completely renewed over recent years. A detailed chronology and full bibliography complete this compelling analysis of an age behind whose calm and assured facade forces were developing which were to shape a very different country and continent.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0191608297

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This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate to reappraise the most famous of all revolutions. Updates for this second edition include a generous chronology of events, plus an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination of the historiography of the Revolution. Opening with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, the book traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, and analyses the impact of events both in France itself and the rest of Europe. William Doyle shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for the millions of ordinary people all over Europe whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval, and civil and international war. It was they who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish a new one, based on the ideals of liberty and revolution, in the face of widespread indifference and hostility.

Author : William Doyle
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2023
Category : France
ISBN : 9781383032079

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All aspects of French life are covered in this text; the economy, social development, religion and culture, French activity overseas, and not least politics and public life.

Author : Malcolm Crook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0198731876

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This book nicely introduces the reader to the historio-political but also the socio-cultural processes during the French revolution. Dr Andrea Beckmann, Lecturer in Criminology, Dept. Policy Studies, University of LincolnIn this volume, one of the first to look at 'Revolutionary France' as a whole, a team of leading international historians explore the major issues of politics and society, culture, economics, and overseas expansion during this vital period of French history.

Author : Mack P. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198731665

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This volume brings together an international team of experts who have synthesized and summarized the most recent research on French history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1660, eachchapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's burgeoning overseas empire, which was constructed in this period. The book is more than a collection of topical essays, however, as eachchapter is linked to the others, together forming a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth century, to the Fronde. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarshiphas significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.

Author : Marcus Graham Bull
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198731856

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This volume aims to provide a variety of points of entry to the history of France between 900 and 1200. It covers key themes such as France's political culture and identity, rural economy and society, the Church and intellectual history.

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2001-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853961

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Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.