The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime (Paperback)

In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime, an international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the Ancien Regime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Regime's main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them. In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Regime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Regime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Release date:	July 2014
Editors:	William Doyle (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow)
Dimensions:	246 x 171 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	598
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-871361-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-871361-4
Barcode:	9780198713616

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