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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1312 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haroldo A. Guízar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030459314
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The École Royale Militaire written by Haroldo A. Guízar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The school is distinguished for being an Enlightenment project, one of its founders publishing an article on it in the Encyclopédie in 1755. Its curriculum broke completely with the Latin pedagogy of the dominant Jesuit system, while adapting the legacy of seventeenth-century riding academies. Its status touches on the nature of absolutism, as it was conceived to glorify the Bourbon dynasty in a similar way to the girls’ school at Saint Cyr and the Invalides. It was also a dispensary of royal charity calculated to ally the nobility more closely to royal interests through military service. In the army, its proofs of nobility were the model for the much debated 1781 Ségur decree, often described as a notable cause of the French Revolution.
Author : Voltaire
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Download or read book Correspondence written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The King's Debts written by Richard Bonney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198205364
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Venality written by William Doyle and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or bequeath at will. By the eighteenthcentury there were 70,000 venal offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing returns to theking, offices were more in demand than ever for the privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices could ever be bought out. The Revolutionbrought an unexpected opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe, has written the first comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to the workings of state and society in France for over threecenturies.
Author : Jānis Langins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262122580
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Conserving the Enlightenment written by Jānis Langins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering.
Author : J. F. Bosher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521077644
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (776 download)
Download or read book French Finances 1770-1795 written by J. F. Bosher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of profit-seeking accountants - 'capitalists', in the language of the time - stood in the way of reform and even of clear accounting until governments of the French Revolution eventually nationalized the financial system and changed it 'from capitalism into a bureaucracy'. From his close study of the administrative changes Professor Bosher concludes that the National Assembly planned to guard the public finances by bureaucratic organization. 'With a vision of mechanical efficiency and articulation', he writes, 'systems of clock-like checks and balances such as eighteenth-century Frenchmen found everywhere, even in nature itself, the revolutionary planners hoped to prevent corruption, putting their faith in the virtues of organization to offset the vices of the individual men.'
Author : John A. Lynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521572738
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Giant of the Grand Siècle written by John A. Lynn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 'invisible giant', the seventeenth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of officers, leadership, administration, logistics, weaponry, tactics, field warfare and siegecraft. The portrait that emerges differs from what current scholarship might have predicted. Instead of claiming that a 'military revolution' transformed warfare, Lynn stresses evolutionary change. This work also offers surprising insights into absolutism and the relationship between the monarchy and aristocracy. Questioning widely held assumptions about state formation and coercion, Lynn argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defence and only rarely to internal repression.
Author : Josef Maria Baernreither
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Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book English Associations of Working Men written by Josef Maria Baernreither and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Bateman
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Reports on the Diseases of London written by Thomas Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Alder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226012654
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Engineering the Revolution written by Ken Alder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the “political” to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, the rise of meritocracy, and our interpretation of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Author : Arthur Scratchley
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Treatise on Friendly Societies ... written by Arthur Scratchley and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monte D. Wright
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Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology, and Warfare written by Monte D. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of warfare has always been largely determined by contemporary technology. Instances of technological change undertaken for the sake of military advantage have also been relatively common in history. The relationships between science and warfare, however, have been much more variable and ambiguous. The papers and discussions of the Symposium investigate selected aspects of the complex relationships between science and technology on the one hand, and warfare on the other, from the Renaissance to the 1960s. In the first session, Professor Hall takes up in turn the possible areas of interaction between science (exterior ballistics, engineering, explosives, mechanics, and metallurgy) and military technology (edge weapons, cannons and mortars, fortification and siege warfare, and small arms) in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. The notion that science is pursued for utilitarian ends, Hall finds, is an unhistorical projection backward from our own age." He excludes navigation and medicine from consideration, because they were civil as well as military concerns. In spite of the pleading of certain early propagandists of the Empire of Man over Nature," and in spite of the elaborate sketches of military engines in Leonardo's notebooks, military technology was largely innocent of scientific method. The developments in fortification required mathematical skills, but nothing more than elementary geometry and arithmetic. Mathematicians studied the ancient problem of the trajectory of projectiles, but their efforts affected neither the design nor the use of guns. The range tables they provided were not even usable with the guns of the time. The solution of the trajectory problem would await Benjamin Robins and the 18th century. Professor Hale supports Hall's conclusion with three arguments. In the 16th and 17th centuries, armies were so organized as to preclude any productive contact with the worlds of science and technology.
Author : Archibald Alison
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Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book The Principles of Population written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Beaumont
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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book The Law of Fire and Life Insurance written by George Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard L. BECK
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Practical Hints on Life Assurance written by Richard L. BECK and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Arbuthnot
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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot written by John Arbuthnot and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
