|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
An exploration of the personal and professional networks of
political power during the reign of Louis XIV, focusing on the
influence of his minister Louis Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain. This
book explores the processes of state-building and the nature of
political power in France during the reign of Louis XIV [1642-1715]
through a study of a prominent ministerial family, the Phelypeaux
de Pontchartrain. During the initial development of French
governmental institutions in early modern France, patron-client
ties provided networks for the transmission of political power that
often paralleled or underpinned formal state institutions. In
theabsence of an efficient state bureaucracy, these informal
patron-client ties tended to be grounded in personal connections
between patrons and clients: marriage, kinship, or friendship.
During the second half of the reign of LouisXIV, however, earlier
state-building and centralizing initiatives began to take root.
Although this study focuses primarily on one family, the Phelypeaux
de Pontchartrain, it provides a broad study of institutions and
political authority in the early modern French state from 1670 to
1715. Louis Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain and his son Jerome became
members of the small circle of Louis XIV's most important advisors
and, as royal councillors, they headed virtually every
administrative division in the royal government over the course of
their careers: finances, the navy, the colonies, the king's
household, and the justice system. This study maps the evolution
and developmentof the family's personal networks of power that
included political patrons and clients in the parlements [law
courts] in Paris, the royal court, among the clergy, in the
outlying provinces, in the navy, and in the French colonies. The
Pontchartrain family's complex political networks also show the
important role of noblewomen in political networks and
state-building. Marriage alliances proved to be an important factor
in the family's ability to weather political crisis and scandals
that beset the clan in the early seventeenth century. Sara Chapman
is Assistant Professor of History at Oakland University.
|
Ole Bull (Hardcover)
Sara Chapman Thorp Bull
|
R1,152
Discovery Miles 11 520
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Ole Bull (Paperback)
Sara Chapman Thorp Bull
|
R815
Discovery Miles 8 150
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Ole Bull, a Memoir (Paperback)
Sara Chapman Thorp 1850-1911 Bull, Ole 1810-1880 Violin Notes Bull, A B (Alpheus Benning) 1832 Crosby
|
R790
Discovery Miles 7 900
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
|
|