France before 1789 : the unraveling of an absolutist regime /

"France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts...

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Autor principal: Elster, Jon, 1940- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2020]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvt7x6dt
Taula de continguts:
  • The psychology of the main social groups : motivations
  • The psychology of the main social groups : information and beliefs
  • The royal administration and the courts
  • Deliberating bodies.