Sale of Offices in the 17th Century
Author | : Koenraad Wolter Swart |
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Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Koenraad Wolter Swart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Koenraad Wolter Swart |
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Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : William Doyle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198205364 |
In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or bequeath at will. By the eighteenthcentury there were 70,000 venal offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing returns to theking, offices were more in demand than ever for the privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices could ever be bought out. The Revolutionbrought an unexpected opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe, has written the first comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to the workings of state and society in France for over threecenturies.
Author | : James Casey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521084048 |
Explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its peripheral provinces.
Author | : Perry Anderson |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781680108 |
Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why didn’t Italy develop into an Absolutist state in the same, indigenous way as the other dominant Western countries, namely Spain, France and England? On the other hand, how did Eastern European countries develop into Absolutist states similar to those of the West, when their social conditions diverged so drastically? Reflecting on examples in Islamic and East Asian history, as well as the Ottoman Empire, Anderson concludes by elucidating the particular role of European development within universal history.
Author | : Thomas Ertman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1997-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521484275 |
Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.
Author | : Michael Nizri |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137326905 |
In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, bringing together individuals of varied backgrounds through empire-wide patronage networks. This book investigates the layers of kap? power, through the example of ?eyhülislam Feyzullah Efendielite.
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Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Economics |
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Author | : R. R. Palmer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 877 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400850223 |
For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. Featuring a new foreword by David Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring work of political history.