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Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe

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  1. John Miller
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • John Miller
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Idea of Absolutism

    • J. H. Burns
    Pages 21-42

  4. France

    • Roger Mettam
    Pages 43-67

  5. Castile

    • I. A. A. Thompson
    Pages 69-98

  6. Sweden

    • A. F. Upton
    Pages 99-121

  7. Brandenburg-Prussia

    • H. W. Koch
    Pages 123-155

  9. The Emergence of Absolutism in Russia

    • Philip Longworth
    Pages 175-193

  10. Britain

    • John Miller
    Pages 195-224

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-268
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Most Seventeenth Century European Monarchs ruled territories which were culturally and institutionally diverse. Forced by the escalating scale of war to mobilise evermore men and money they tried to bring these territories under closer control, overriding regional and sectional liberties. This was justified by a theory stressing the monarchs absolute power and his duty to place the good of his state before particular interests. The essays of this volume analyse this process in states at very different stages of economic and political development and assess the great gulf that often existed between the monarchs power in theory and in practice.
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