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Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe

Title
Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe / edited by Robert von Friedeburg, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, John Morrill, University of Cambridge.
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Friedeburg, Robert von
  • Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen)
Description
xi, 393 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise and even advancement through new channels that the governing dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy."--
Subject
  • 1600-1699
  • Monarchy > Europe > History > 17th century
  • Elite (Social sciences) > Europe > History > 17th century
  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • Kings and rulers
  • Monarchy
  • Europe > Kings and rulers > History
  • Europe > History > 17th century
  • Europe
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 17-9954
ISBN
  • 9781316510247
  • 1316510247
OCLC
981115674
Title
Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe / edited by Robert von Friedeburg, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, John Morrill, University of Cambridge.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1600-1699
Added Author
Friedeburg, Robert von, editor.
Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen), editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-9954
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