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- catalog abstract ""This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. Although not a representative institution in any modern sense, the Estates were constantly engaged in a process of bargaining with the French crown, and this book examines that relationship under the ancien regime. Julian Swann analyses the organisation, membership and powers of the Estates and explores their administration, their struggles for power with rival institutions and their relationship with the crown and with the Burgundian people."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13000546.
- catalog coverage "Burgundy (France) Politics and government 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Burgundy (France) Politics and government 18th century.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. Although not a representative institution in any modern sense, the Estates were constantly engaged in a process of bargaining with the French crown, and this book examines that relationship under the ancien regime.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-446) and index.".
- catalog description "Julian Swann analyses the organisation, membership and powers of the Estates and explores their administration, their struggles for power with rival institutions and their relationship with the crown and with the Burgundian people."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Map: The duchy of Burgundy in the eighteenth century -- 1. Historians, absolute monarchy and the provincial estates -- 2. Ancien regime Burgundy -- 3. The Estates General of Burgundy -- 4. Nosseigneurs les elus and the officers of the Estates -- 5. The provincial administration: authority and enforcement -- 6. 'It's raining taxes'. Paying for the Sun King, 1661-1715 -- 7. Provincial administration in an age of iron, 1661-1715.".
- catalog extent "xv, 460 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521827671".
- catalog isPartOf "New studies in European history".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Burgundy (France) Politics and government 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Burgundy (France) Politics and government 18th century.".
- catalog subject "944/.403 21".
- catalog subject "France. Etats généraux.".
- catalog subject "JN2417.B87 S93 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Map: The duchy of Burgundy in the eighteenth century -- 1. Historians, absolute monarchy and the provincial estates -- 2. Ancien regime Burgundy -- 3. The Estates General of Burgundy -- 4. Nosseigneurs les elus and the officers of the Estates -- 5. The provincial administration: authority and enforcement -- 6. 'It's raining taxes'. Paying for the Sun King, 1661-1715 -- 7. Provincial administration in an age of iron, 1661-1715.".
- catalog title "Provincial power and absolute monarchy : the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790 / Julian Swann.".
- catalog type "text".