Phil McCluskey

Absolute monarchy on the frontiers

Louis XIV's military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy during the personal rule of Louis XIV (1661-1715). It casts important new light on the aims and intentions (and also the limitations) of the French state in the seventeenth century, and makes a significant contribution to understanding a crucial era in the development of civil-military relations. Absolute monarchy on the frontiers presents the occupations of Lorraine and Savoy from a comparative perspective, and draws on the experience of several other French occupations of the period, including those of Nice and Luxembourg. It places the occupations within the context of French frontier strategy and foreign policy in the seventeenth century, with particular reference to the French monarchy's relationship to Lorraine and Savoy as frontier states. It then charts the way the French government administered occupied territories, and how this differed from the practice of 'absolutism' within the kingdom. It also gives an account of how the French occupiers went about courting the interests of local elite groups - the nobilities, the financial and judicial elites and the clergy - and how far these efforts were successful. By investigating these groups this book provides a more wide-ranging view of military occupation in the early modern era, considering social, economic and religious questions, than has so far been available. This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of the political, social and military history of early modern France and Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087165
• ISBN-10: 0719087163
• Artikelnr.: 37744936

Autorenporträt

Phil McCluskey is Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Maps Introduction Part 1: The eastern frontiers of France in the age of
Louis XIV 1. Lorraine, Savoy and the frontiers of France 2. Military
occupation in French frontier strategy Part 2: Administration on the
frontiers 3. The structures of occupation 4. The burdens of occupation Part
3: The local elites under French occupation 5. The nobilities 6. The
administrative elites 7. The church Conclusion Appendix: The officers of
the sovereign companies of Savoy, 1690-1713 Bibliography Index