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Author : Camille Rousset
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Histoire de Luvois Et de Son Administration Politique Et Militaire written by Camille Rousset and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Camille Rousset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Histoire de Louvois et de son administration politique et militaire written by Camille Rousset and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Darnell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650543
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV's France written by Benjamin Darnell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of the limitations of the system which relied on intermediaries and private suppliers to finance, build and maintain the French navy. Although Louis XIV's navy did not "win" in any recognisable sense during the wars of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, it was nevertheless one of the largest military institutions of the entire early modern world at a key moment in the evolution of the modern state and modern warfare. This book examines how Louis XIV's navy was financed, arguing that the way the state spends money, and the relative efficiency and accountability of that spending, is fundamental to understanding the effectiveness of a military system. It outlines how the French crown depended on fiscal intermediaries and private suppliers, explores how its failure to control the spending and activities of its contractors fundamentally limited France's strategic possibilities at sea, and discusses how these structural problems were progressively and disastrously exposed as the state's financial situation deteriorated. The book sets the activities of the French navy in the wider context of the wars of the period, showing that France necessarily had to give precedence to the funding of its army. Overall, the book highlights the limitations of the contractor state, demonstrating that early modern navies were both too complex and investment-heavy to be entirely outsourced.
Author : John Condren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040041663
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe written by John Condren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent generations, the study of dynastic politics and diplomatic history has undergone a revival. This field provides invaluable context for understanding international relations and focuses on aspects of cultural exchange and intellectual currents far more than previously. The “age of Louis XIV” has not been immune from this resurrection of interest in foreign policy and the conduct of diplomacy. This book is the first serious full-length study of Louis XIV’s diplomatic relations with the small states of northern Italy, specifically the duchies of Parma, Modena, and Mantua-Monferrato. Louis’s desire to be seen as a peacemaker (despite his obvious bellicosity) extended to Italy, where he asserted the French crown’s potential as a broker of peace between rival dynasties. But his evident self-interest, and the need to preserve France’s perceived traditional alliance with the House of Savoy, undermined these efforts. He also failed to defend the interests of the dukes of Parma and Modena in their quarrels with the Holy See. After apparent successes in the Franco-Dutch War, Louis believed that he could undermine Spanish influence over the princes of Italy. But his attempts to do so antagonised both the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs and the Lombardy dukes themselves, resulting in renewed war. Louis XIV and the Peace of Europe analyses diplomatic culture at Versailles and at the small Italian courts, and assesses examples of artistic exchange. It will be valuable reading for undergraduates, graduate students, and historians of the field, as well as for those interested in Louis XIV and Italian culture more generally.
Author : Myron P. Gutmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855292
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries written by Myron P. Gutmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe. Myron Gutmann studies this impact through a systematic analysis of military, economic, and demographic variables as they affected the Basse-Meuse area in Eastern Belgium and the Netherlands between 1620 and 1750. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Philip F. Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001065
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Lust for Virtue written by Philip F. Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. As a hot-blooded young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or to sin and, despite his cherished title of God's Most Christian King, violations of God's Sixth and Ninth Commandments never troubled him. Indeed, for the first two decades of his reign, he paraded a stream of royal mistresses before all of Europe and fathered sixteen illegitimate children. Yet, midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs, and letters, Riley describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience and his efforts to safeguard his subjects' souls by attacking sin and infusing his kingdom with virtue, especially in Paris and at Versailles. Throughout his attack on sin, women--so-called Soldiers of Satan--were the special targets of the police. By the seventeenth century, fornication and adultery had become exclusively female crimes; men guilty of these sins were rarely punished as severely. Although unsuccessful, Louis's attack on sin clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin as well as the futility of enforcing a religiously inspired social policy on an irreverent, secular-minded France.
Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317408594
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 written by Christopher Duffy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been acclaimed as the classic period of artillery fortification. This was an era when fortresses and fortress systems shaped the calculations of strategists and statesmen, and often dictated the course of campaigns. The age was one of almost constant conflict and this book, originally published in 1985, explores the influence of the fortress in the dynastic wars of Bourbon, Habsburg and Hohenzollern, the contest for influence in the Baltic, the last crusades of the West against the Turks, and in the peculiar conditions of colonial campaigning and the War of the American Independence.
Author : David Ogg
Publisher : A & C Black
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Europe in the Seventeenth Century written by David Ogg and published by A & C Black. This book was released on 1925 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wellington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576402
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV written by Robert Wellington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to study the past. Yet medals are often elided from the narrative of the arts of ancient r?me France, their neglect wholly disproportionate to the cultural status that they once held. This revisionary study uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV, and in the defining monuments of his age. It looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document Louis XIV's history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand si?e.
Author : Darryl Dee
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463037
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France written by Darryl Dee and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by a desire for glory and renown, Louis XIV presided over France's last great burst of territorial expansion in Europe. During the first three decades of his rule, his armies conquered numerous territories along France's borders. After 1688, however, the tide of conquest turned as the kingdom was plunged into crisis. For the remainder of his reign, the king and his people endured wars against grand alliances of European powers, ecological disasters, economic depression, state bankruptcy, and demographic stagnation. Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France examines these central yet understudied aspects of the age of the Sun King through the experience of Franche-Comté, a possession of the Spanish empire with a long history of autonomy, conquered by Louis XIV in 1674. Dee's detailed research reconstructs the ensuing dialogue -- sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant -- between the king and the elites who ruled this province. The integration of Franche-Comté into France proved to be a protracted process involving confrontation, negotiation, and compromise. The resulting regime was then severely tested by the challenges of Louis XIV's late reign; its survival demonstrated how the king had brought a distinctly early modern state to the height of its development. This study offers significant new insights on the growth of the territorial state in early modern Europe, the nature of the French absolute monarchy, and the political legacy of the Sun King. Darryl Dee is Assistant Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Author : Peter Robert Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901495
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV written by Peter Robert Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seminar Studies in History" aims to bridge the gap between the standardized textbook and the specialist survey. Each book consists of a brief introduction or background to the subject, followed by a section of analysis focusing on the main themes and issues.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Coit Gilman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Class List of the Books in the Reference Library written by Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514835
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Business of War written by David Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
