The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime

The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 583
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780191617188
ISBN-13 : 0191617180
Rating : 4/5 (180 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime by : William Doyle

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime written by William Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime Related Books

The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: William Doyle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisingly complex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Régime Eu
The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions
Language: en
Pages: 836
Authors: R. A. W. Rhodes
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-12 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions h
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism
Language: en
Pages: 705
Authors: Karl Orfeo Fioretos
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 808
Authors: William Doyle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-28 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly deb
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 828
Authors: Keith E. Whittington
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-