E. N. Williams. The Ancien Régime in Europe. Government and Society in the Major States, 1648-1789.

CONTENTS

Preface

1 – INTRODUCTION

2 – HOLLAND: FROM GOLDEN AGE TO PERIWIG PERIOD

3 – SPAIN: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DECLINE

4 – SPAIN: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVIVAL

5 – FRANCE: THE INHERITANCE OF LOUIS XIV

6 – FRANCE: LOUIS XIV AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME

7 – FRANCE: SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTTEENTH CENTURY

8 – FRANCE: THE COLLAPSE OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME

9 – RUSSIA: FROM GRAND DUCHY TO WORLD EMPIRE

10 – RUSSIA: THE GROWTH OF AUTOCRACY

11 – RUSSIA: THE INFLUENCE OF THE WEST

12 – RUSSIA: LORD AND SERF

13 – PRUSSIA: THE GREAT ELECTOR

14 – PRUSSIA: FREDERICK I AND FREDERICK WILLIAM I

15 – PRUSSIA: ABSOLUTISM AND PRUSSIANISM

16 – PRUSSIA: FREDERICK THE GREAT

17 – AUSTRIA: THE RISE OF THE AUSTRIAN MONARCHY, 1620-1740

18 – AUSTRIA: MARIA THERESA, 1740-80

19 – AUSTRIA: JOSEPH II, 1780-90

20 – BRITAIN: MIXED MONARCHY

21 – BRITAIN: SOCIAL EVOLUTION AND WORLD POWER

22 – CONCLUSION

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