Showing Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc by William Beik

Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-century France This book looks at the provincial reality of absolutism in 17th-century France and its role in changing the traditional social system. The author examines current approaches to state and society by institutional, social and Marxist historians, and calls for a new class analysis. Full description