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The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel

Architectures of Transversality Paul Klee Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination

Louis I. Kahn—Architect Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him

Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

This title was first published in 2003. Few historians would deny that Louis XIV's France dominated the political cultural and military landscape of late seventeenth century Europe. Yet the financial foundations on which French hegemony were based remain open to question. Traditionally the regime has been viewed as the archetypal centralizing monarchy in which warfare was the main motor driving reform. Yet recent research has pointed to a more subtle interpretation in which power was negotiated and interests balanced between the crown and members of the elite. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war Louis in return stabilised many of the structures on which the elite stood entrenched elements of privilege throughout the political landscape and devolved power to provincial institutions. Especially with the participation of privileged corps as financial intermediaries the politics of war finance in the last twenty five years of Louis' reign profoundly influenced the direction in which absolutism developed through the remainder of the Old Regime. The book situates the period 1688 to 1715 as a crucial stage in the development of absolutism; tying the choices available to Louis XIV with the structures and institutions that he inherited from his predecessors while setting his approach apart. By also measuring the impact of financial negotiations between crown and corps on the later state it is argued that absolutism under Louis was neither ossified nor in crisis as the latter half of his reign is often described but rather dynamic and flexible as it sought to meet the financial costs of warfare. | Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

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Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France

Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals) Being a Continuation of the Evolution of Preventive Medicine

The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals) The Origins of Romanticism

New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences Credos and Controversies

Sports Media History Culture Technology Identity

Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys

Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq

Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys

Constructing Building Enclosures Architectural History Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era

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The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror

Music in a New Found Land Themes and Developments in the History of American Music

Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

The French Revolution 1787-1804