| Vienna and Versailles Contributor(s): Duindam, Jeroen (Author), Jeroen, Duindam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521714761 ISBN-13: 9780521714761 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2007 Annotation: Drawing together a wealth of unpublished material in a comparative framework, this volume recreates the life of the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court in Paris-Versailles from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. It reveals how the royal households operated at the heart of the early modern state and offers original approaches to understanding statebuilding and the concept of "absolutism." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
| Dewey: 943.603 |
| Series: New Studies in European History |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.37 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing together a wealth of unpublished material in a comparative framework, this volume recreates the life of the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court in Paris-Versailles from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. It reveals how the royal households operated at the heart of the early modern state and offers original approaches to understanding statebuilding and the concept of absolutism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Duindam, Jeroen: - Jeroen Duindam is Lecturer in History, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. |