Description: Absolute Monarchy on the FrontiersLouis XIV?s Military Occupations of Lorraine and Savoy Author(s): Phil McCluskey Format: Hardback Publisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 9780719087165, 978-0719087165 Synopsis French territorial ambitions and consequent military activity during the reign of Louis XIV ensured that a number of territories bordering on France were subject to military occupation for strategic reasons from the 1660s onwards. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study presents the occupation of two of these territories, Lorraine and Savoy, from a comparative perspective. It investigates the aims and intentions of the French monarchy in occupying these regions, the problems of administering them, and French relations with key local elite groups. Absolute monarchy on the frontiers makes a significant contribution to understanding this crucial era in the development of civil-military relations. It also places the occupations of Lorraine and Savoy within the framework of recent scholarship on early modern border societies and frontiers, and on the practice of ?absolutism? at the frontiers of the French kingdom. The book will appeal particularly to scholars and students of early modern France and Europe. -- .
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Book Title: Absolute Monarchy on the Frontiers
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Absolute Monarchy on the Frontiers: Louis Xiv's Military Occupations of Lorraine and Savoy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Archaeology, History
Item Height: 234 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Phil Mccluskey
Series: Studies in Early Modern European History
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
