The crisis of the absolute monarchy : France from Old Regime to revolution / edited by Julian Swann and Joël Félix.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swann, Julian, editor.

Félix, Joël, 1960- editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 184.

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.

Louis.

Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.

Necker, Jacques.

Doyle, William, 1942- Origins of the French Revolution.

Doyle, William.

Monarchy--France--History--18th century.

Monarchy.

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763.

History.

France--Politics and government--18th century.

France.

Politics and government.

France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.

France--Politics and government--1589-1789.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 337 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

France from Old Regime to revolution

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2013.

Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

For generations of historians, 1789 was a defining moment in world history and it has been said to mark, amongst other things, the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the birth of modernity, the rise of nationalism or even the invention of ideology. To explain an event of such magnitude it was understandable that historians should seek no less portentous explanations of its origins and that factors such as the rise of capitalism, class struggle or the impact of the Enlightenment were cited as the long-term causes of Revolution. In recent years, however, there has been a preoccupation with the actual course of the Revolution. The present collection, by contrast, focuses once again upon the origins of the dramatic events within and beyond France which transformed later eighteenth-century Europe so comprehensively and established the terms of political and social struggle for the next two centuries.

Contents:

Introduction: The crisis of the absolute monarchy / Julian Swann

How, and how not, to use the concept of crisis in the reign of Louis XVI / Jean-Pierre Poussou

The end of a golden age or the implosion of a false absolutism? : the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from absolutism to revolution, 1685-1814 / Michael Broers

From servant of the king to "idol of the nation" : the breakdown of personal monarchy in Louis XVI's France / Julian Swann

The maréchal de Castries and the pre-revolution / Munro Price

The problem with Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) / Joël Félix

Necker and aristocratic constitutionalism : the British connection / Nigel Aston

The culture of war in Europe, 1750-1815 / David A. Bell

The Austrian alliance, the Seven Years' War and the emergence of a French "national" foreign policy, 1756-1790 / Thomas E. Kaiser

A model of conduct from the age of chivalry? : honour, international decline and the end of the Bourbon monarchy / Hamish Scott

Franco-British naval rivalry and the crisis of the monarchy, 1759-1789 / Olivier Chaline

"Complaints lost in the wind" : French India and the crisis of the absolute monarchy: a global dimension? / Mike Rapport

The Maison militaire du roi and the disintegration of the old regime / Guy Rowlands

The crisis of the nobility at the twilight of the monarchy / Michel Figeac

The making of a bourgeois identity? : urban histories and their historians in eighteenth-century France / Clarisse Coulomb

William "Bill" Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution / Tim Blanning.

Notes:

Papers presented at an international conference held at the British Academy in December, 2009.

Issued in honor of historian William Doyle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197265383

0197265383

OCLC:

852793745