Corps and Clienteles: Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715

by Mark Potter

Book Overview

This title was first published in 2003. Few historians would deny that Louis XIV's France dominated the political, cultural and military landscape of late seventeenth century Europe. Yet, the financial foundations on which French hegemony were based remain open to question. Traditionally the regime has been viewed as the archetypal centralizing monarchy in which warfare was the main motor driving reform. Yet recent research has pointed to a more subtle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138709239
• ISBN13: 9781138709232
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"