The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime

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William Doyle (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)

The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime

William Doyle (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)

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Oxford University Press
04 September 2014

History; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; French Revolution

Series: Oxford Handbooks

In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, an international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.

The idea of the Ancien Régime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Régime's main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them.

In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Régime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Régime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.

Edited by: William Doyle (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow University of Bristol)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 171mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198713616
ISBN 10: 0198713614
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 598
Publication Date: 04 September 2014
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime

[a] distinguished volume ... it is to be given a warm welcome and its editor is to be congratulated on having assembled such a distinguished international team. * Tim Blanning, English Historical Review *