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Author : John C. Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015016614904
Author : John C. Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:869757089
Author : H. Gaston Hall
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815622759
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Author : William Young
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 9780595329922
The Peace of Westphalia (1648), ending the Thirty Years' War, resulted in the rise of the modern European states system. However, dynasticism, power politics, commerce, and religion continued to be the main issues driving International politics and warfare. Dr. William Young examines war and diplomacy during the Age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great. His study focuses on the later part of the Franco-Spanish War, the Wars of Louis XIV, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars in the West. In addition, the author explores the wars of the Baltic Region and East Europe, including the Thirteen Years' War, Second Northern War, War of the Holy League, and the Great Northern War. The study includes a guide to the historical literature concerning war and diplomacy during this period. It includes bibliographical essays and a valuable annotated bibliography of over six hundred books, monographs, dissertations, theses, journal articles, and essays published in the English language. International Politics and Warfare in the Age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great is a valuable resource for individuals interested in the history of diplomacy, warfare, and Early Modern Europe.
Author : Paul Sonnino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521531349
This stylish and highly entertaining account of the origins of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 is based on massive archival researches covering twelve countries. Contrary to the accepted historical opinion that there was a meeting of minds within Louis XIV's conseil d'en haut over the desirability of the war, Professor Sonnino chronicles a story of bitter division, in the course of which the contrasting personalities of the king and of his most intimate advisors emerge in vivid detail. Racine once eulogized the war as a brilliantly executed venture which put the insolent Dutch in their place. Saint-Simon, on the other hand, saw it as the disastrous result of endemic jealousies, in which Le Tellier and Louvois sought to displace Colbert in Louis' affections. From these early views the modern consensus, in spite of occasional dissenters, has gradually evolved. Professor Sonnino, however, breaks through the maze of interpretations with decisive new evidence, and in an unusually clear and lively evocation of the emotional element which pervaded high policy, explains the many agonizing decisions that preceded one of the most dramatic conflicts of the seventeenth century.
Author : Lois G. Schwoerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526140
Interdisciplinary interpretations of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : France
ISBN : NYPL:33433071367449
Author : James A. Nathan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313015526
The increasing capacity of states to muster violence, the concomitant rise of military power as a meaningful instrument of foreign policy, and the frequent episodic collapse of that power are considered in this examination of force, order, and diplomacy. Nathan points to periods of relative order and stability in international relations-the time immediately prior to the rise of Frederick the Great, for example, or the half century after the Napoleonic Wars-as times when states have been most vulnerable to spoilers and rogues. Only the power of the Cold War blocs fostered durable order. Now, notwithstanding novel elements of globalization, international relations appear as dependent as ever on the prudent management of force. Students, scholars, and soldiers are frequently exposed to Clausewitz, Westphalia, Napoleon, World War I, and the like. But what makes these events and individuals so important? This book is Clausewitz's successor, insisting that soldiers and statesmen know and master the integrative potential of force. Nathan provides a narrative account of the people and events that have shaped international relations since the onset of the state system. He asserts that an understanding of the limits and utility of persuasion, as well as the corresponding limits and utility of force, will help assure national security in a world filled with more uncertainties than ever in the last 50 years.
Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640191433
Louis XIV - the Sun King or Louis the Great, as he was also known - ruled France with an iron fist for over half a century, from 1651 to his death in 1715, outliving his son and even his grandson. His court at the Palace of Versailles became the most dazzling on the Continent, and through his intelligence and cunning, he made France the leading power of Europe. Now, in this masterful biography, historian Olivier Bernier brilliantly recreates Louis XIV's world to reveal the secrets of this monarch's unequaled sovereignty and to explore the singular mystique that surrounds him today. Not only was Louis heir to his father's throne, he felt he was divinely chosen to rule France. From the year he became king at the age of thirteen, he oversaw every aspect of government, from waging war and making political appointments to supervising the building of his many palaces. Along with political treachery that marked Louis XIV's long reign, Bernier also brings to light the personal scandals. We witness the poignant resignation of Louis XIV's queen to her husband's parade of mistresses and illegitimate children, the infamous intrigue when the king's brother was accused of poisoning his wife in a jealous rage, and the momentous building of Versailles, not an act of monstrous self-indulgence that bankrupted the nation but the visible expression of Louis XIV's new monarchy - his ingenious methods of centering all activity around court life, thus preventing his courtiers from fomenting rebellion. Under the Sun King, architecture, painting, music, and theater flourished, making France not only a great political force but a paradigm of fashion and culture as well. Louis XIV takes us from the grandeur of Versailles to the battlefields of the countryside, from the bedrooms of the king's mistresses to the chambers of his ministers, and presents an engrossing portrait of royal life and a commanding leader.
Author : John David Orme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319771670
What are the causes of war? Wars are generally begun by a revisionist state seeking to take territory. The psychological root of revisionism is the yearning for glory, honor and power. Human nature is the primary cause of war, but political regimes can temper or intensify these passions. This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy: monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic, and military and totalitarian dictatorship. Dictatorships encourage and unleash human ambition, and are thus the governments most likely to begin ill-considered wars. Classical realism, modified to incorporate the impact of regimes and beliefs, provides a more convincing explanation of war than neo-realism.
Author : David Lee Rubin
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0918016940
This work is a selection of papers presented at the Folger Institute by an international collegium of scholars on the ascendancy of French culture during the reign of Louis XIV.
Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228004325
Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.
Author : Louis XIV (King of France)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89035413582
Author : Louis XIV (King of France)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HXG7FR
Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039683581
Louis XIV, whose great prestige earned him the title of "the Sun King," is the most famous of all the French kings. He ruled France in one of its most glorious periods, and remains to this day the supreme symbol of absolute monarchy. Now, in a brilliant new biography, Prince Michael of Greece has revealed a darker side to the Sun King. Drawing on detailed evidence from contemporary records, letters and memoirs, he explored the possibility that, underneath it all, this epitome of kingship was a shy, weak, unstable man of unexpected and intriguing complexity. Prince Michael assesses the continued and enduring influence of Cardinal Mazarin and Louis' mother, Anne of Austria, on the little boy who came to the throne at the age of five but who learned early on to hide his profound insecurity behind the ever more elaborate trappings of monarchy. Here, then, is a vivid portrait of a not particularly intelligent king, secretly poring over textbooks, preferring to command sieges rather than battles because they were more convenient, whose voracious sexual appetite right into his seventies flouted the very conventions he himself tried to impose on a reluctant court at Versailles. Without simply debunking Louis, Prince Michael of Greece succeeds in presenting an iconoclastic biography which shatters many of the accepted myths about the man and his century. The result is a glimpse of the human frailties and inadequacies that lay behind the arrogance, protocol and pageantry of France's greatest king. - Jacket flap.
