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.
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