This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the ...

This is the first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial ...

Evans (classics, U. of British Columbia) examines the history of the great emperor, whose reign marks the transition between Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, including ...

"Political economy comes of age in this book. [It] practices what has so far merely been advocated, the melding of history, economics, and political science. . . . A ...

A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.