France and the age of revolution : regimes old and new from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte
Doyle, William, 1942-2013
Book
Main title:
Author:
Doyle, William, 1942-, author
Imprint:
London I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Collation:
232 pages illustrations
Series:
International library of historical studies ; v. 91
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Functions for Sale -- 1.Colbert and the Sale of Offices -- 2.Voltaire and Venality: The Ambiguities of an Abuse -- 3.Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France -- 4.Changing Notions of Public Corruption (c.1770-c.1850) -- pt. II The Old Order Disintegrates -- 5.The Union with Ireland in a European Context -- 6.The French Revolution: Possible because Thinkable or Thinkable because Possible? -- 7.Desacralising Desacralisation -- 8.The French Revolution and Monarchy -- 9.The American Revolution and the European Nobility -- pt. III Napoleon: An Undemocratic Revolutionary -- 10.The Napoleonic Nobility Revisited -- 11.Napoleon, Women and the French Revolution -- 12.The Political Culture of the French Empire -- 13.Revolutionary Napoleon.
ISBN:
9781780764443 (hbk)1780764448 (hbk)1780764456 (pbk)9781780764450 (pbk)
Dewey class:
944.04
Language:
English
BRN:
267479