The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

by Jerzy Lukowski and Jeremy Black

Jerzy Lukowski shows the pressures and tensions, both from below and from governments, which increasingly challenged traditional ruling groups in Europe during the century before the French Revolution. The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority; but that world was becoming fractured as a result of social and economic developments and new ideas. Lukowski explains the basic mechanisms of noble existence and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033365210X
• ISBN13: 9780333652107
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.6"