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A world of paper : Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state / John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rule, John C., author.
- Trotter, Ben S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1665-1746.
- Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
- Louis.
- France. Ministère des affaires étrangères--Management--History.
- France.
- France. Ministère des affaires étrangères--Officials and employees--History.
- France. Ministère des affaires étrangères.
- Bureaucracy--France--History--17th century.
- Bureaucracy.
- Bureaucracy--France--History--18th century.
- France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
- Local Subjects:
- Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1665-1746.
- Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
- France. Ministère des affaires étrangères.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (848 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state
- Place of Publication:
- Montréal, [Québec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. This book offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 Louis XIV, Roi-Bureaucrate
- 2 Torcy's Preparation for and Rise to Power
- 3 Mentorship and Testing
- 4 The Department of Secretary of State Torcy
- 5 The Department's Structures and Personnel
- 6 The Triumph of the Commis
- 7 Finances and Rewards
- 8 Preserving, Deploying, and Controlling Information
- 9 Ambassadors in Paris and Abroad 354 Information and the Formulation of Foreign Policy
- 10 Conclusion
- 11 Domestic Administration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9215-6
- 0-7735-9214-8
- OCLC:
- 887634639
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb33473 hdl
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