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Richelieu's army : war, government, and society in France, 1624-1642 /

It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening R...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Parrott, David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Collection:Cambridge studies in early modern history.
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Résumé:It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold upon France. Runner up in the History Today Awards 2002.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xxiv, 599 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-578) and index.
ISBN:0511018185
9780511018183
0511154070
9780511154072
9780521792097
0521792096
9780511046971
0511046979