An exploration of current scholarly thinking about the wide and surprisinglycomplex range of historical problems associated with the study of Ancien Rgime Europe In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Rgime, an international team of 30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.The idea of the Ancien Rgime 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 Rgime'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 Rgime 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 Rgime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguingcomplex of historical problems which it continues to pose. INDICE: Introduction Section I: Government Absolute Monarchy Diplomacy Armed Forces Finance Parlements and Provincial Estates Section II: Society Nobility Bourgeoisie Estates, Orders, and Corps Poverty Gender Section III: Economy Demography Feudalism Agriculture Commerce Slavery and Serfdom Section IV: Religion The Established Church Popular Religion Jansenism Dissent and Toleration Section V: Culture Education Sociability Patronage The Public Sphere Section VI: Solvents? Enlightenment Technological Change Revolution Section VII: Test Cases The Napoleonic Regimes Reformed and Unreformed Britain, 1689-1801 Colonial America The Old Reich Conclusion Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-929120-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 600
- Fecha Publicación: 10/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés