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Title Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe / edited by Robert von Friedeburg (Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln), John Morrill (University of Cambridge).
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 8  History CK30 FRI2  

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Description xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781316510247 hardback
1316510247 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise and even advancement through new channels that the governing dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy."-- Provided by publisher.
Library Class History CK30
Subject Monarchy -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Europe -- Kings and rulers -- History.
Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Other Author Friedeburg, Robert von, editor.
Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen), editor.

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