France in the Early Modern World 1300-1790

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Exploring the impact French history has had on world history, this book unpacks the events and their significance from the Black Death to the beginning of the French Revolution, as well as how climate change, global trade, and epidemic disease, has impacted France.During the colonial period, the French came to define themselves as a nation by contrasting themselves with outsiders, including European rivals, the people they colonized, and the Africans they enslaved. They also defined themselves as a nation against insiders, people who were not accepted as French, such as people of Jewish and Protestant faith, as well as longtime residents of foreign origin. Classic topics of French history, the growth of the state, the Wars of Religion, Louis XIV’s monarchy, the Enlightenment, and the origins of the French Revolution, appear in a new light when understood in the context of world historical developments and the way in which the French defined themselves through inclusion and exclusion.France in the Early Modern World 1300-1790 is essential reading for students of early modern French and European history and for historians for whom it offers a model for examining the history of one country within a world history context.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCountries in the Early Modern World
Antal sidor438
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138696457

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Keith P. Luria is Professor of History Emeritus at North Carolina State University, U.S.A, where he has taught early modern French and European history, as well as medieval and early modern world history. His previous works include Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (1991) and Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France (2005).

“In his lucid and engaging new book on early modern France, Luria shifts the lens to illuminate a society profoundly reshaped through its participation in global as well as local forces of change. Here, alterations in climate and the environment, the expansion of global economic networks, the trans-national circulation of ideas, military conflicts among other trans-regional forces acted upon the political and social body of France, reshaping its institutions, practices and people in the process. This is a nuanced, and welcome departure from the more nation-centred studies that typically ground early modern scholarship on France and Europe more generally.”Megan C. Armstrong, McMaster University