The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy
From the Old Regime to the French Revolution
Edited by Julian Swann and Joël Félix
OUP/British Academy
Table of Contents
1:Introduction: The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy, Julian Swann
2:How, and how not, to use the concept of crisis in the reign of Louis XVI, Jean-Philippe Poussou
3:The End of a Golden Age or the Implosion of a False Absolutism? The Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from Absolutism to Revolution, 1685-1814, Michael Broers
4:From servant of the king to "idol of the nation": The breakdown of personal monarchy in Louis XVI's France, Julian Swann
5:The maréchal de Castries and the pre-revolution, Munro Price
6:The problem with Necker's Compte Rendu au Roi (1781), Joël Félix
7:Necker and aristocratic constitutionalism: the British connection, Nigel Aston
8:The Culture of War in Europe, 1750-1815, David A. Bell
9:The Austrian Alliance, the Seven Years' War, and the Emergence of a French 'National' Foreign Policy, 1756-1790, Thomas E. Kaiser
10:A Model of Conduct from the Age of Chivalry?: Honour, International Decline and the End of the Bourbon Monarchy, Hamish Scott
11:Franco-British naval rivalry and the crisis of the monarchy (1759-1789), Olivier Chaline
12:'Complaints Lost in the Wind'. French India and the Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: a Global Dimension?, Mike Rapport
13:The Maison militaire du Roi and the disintegration of the Old Regime, Guy Rowlands
14:The crisis of the nobility at the twilight of the monarchy, Michel Figeac
15:The making of a bourgeois identity? Urban histories and their historians in eighteenth-century France, Clarisse Coulomb
16:William 'Bill' Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution, T.C.W. Blanning