Author: J. Russell Major
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: monarchy, nobles, estates, kings, french, absolute, renaissance
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1997-05-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801856310
ISBN-13: 9780801856310
Scholars of early modern France have traditionally seen an alliance between the kings and the bourgeoisie, leading to an absolute, centralized monarchy, perhaps as early as the reign of Francis I (1515-47). In From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy, eminent historian J. Russell Major draws on forty-five years of research to dispute this view, offering both a masterful synthesis of existing scholarship and new information concerning the role of the nobility in these changes.Renaissance monarchs, Major contends, had neither the army nor the bureaucracy to create an absolute monarchy; th
Author: Vernon Bogdanor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constitution, monarchy
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1998-02-12
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0198293348
ISBN-13: 9780198293347
In the increasingly questioning world of the 1990s, the role of the monarchy in a democracy is again coming under scrutiny. Its critics argue that the monarchy is a profoundly conservative institution which serves to inhibit social change; that it has outlived its usefulness; that it symbolizes and reinforces deference and hierarchy; and that its radical reform is therefore long overdue. Rejecting these arguments, Vernon Bogdanor makes a powerful case for the positive role that monarchy plays in modern democratic politics. Ranging across law, politics, and history he argues that far from un
Author: Jennifer Fandel
Publisher: Creative Educatio
Keywords: government, forms, monarchy
Number of Pages: 47
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $32.80
ISBN-10: 1583415343
ISBN-13: 9781583415344
Author: Philip Wilkinson
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, monarchy, british
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0470056819
ISBN-13: 9780470056813
Includes insights into the lives of the current royal family Britain’s heritage told through the colourful lives of its kings and queens The monarchy is at the heart of British life. If you’re going to understand Britain and its history, you need to understand the story of its royal family. This lively guide walks you through the history of the British monarchy from the earliest times to the present day and covers the colourful characters, extraordinary events, power struggles, and politics that have shaped one of the most famous institutions in the world. Disc
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Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: volume, france, monarchy, restoration, history
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2009-12-27
List price: $27.74
ISBN-10: 1150184302
ISBN-13: 9781150184307
Volume: 1 Publisher: H. G. Bohn Publication date: 1854 Subjects: France Biography
Author: Andrew Marsham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: monarchy, islamic, rituals
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0748625127
ISBN-13: 9780748625123
The Ritual of Accession in Early Islam provides a history of the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late ninth and tenth centuries.The study of royal rituals of accession and succession in Christian Rome, Byzantium and the early Medieval West has generated an extensive literature. This has however remained unexplored in scholarship on the Islamic world. This book redresses that by examining the ceremonial of accession to the caliphate in early Islam, covering the place of ritual in political pr
Author: Nathaniel Harris
Publisher: World Almanac Library
Keywords: government, systems, monarchy
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2005-07
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0836858859
ISBN-13: 9780836858853
Why have particular systems of government come into being? What makes them fail? What effect does government have on the way in which society is structured and on the economic and cultural life of its people? This series looks at different systems of government and discusses their origins, history and practical application in the modern world. From King Richard the Lionheart to Napoleon I of France, monarchs have made a huge impression on history. But what is a monarchy and where did it begin? Who are the modern monarchs and how much power do they hold? These questions, and many more, are answ
