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Comprendre la France d'Ancien Régime implique de se distancier de réflexes mentaux trop contemporains. L'État moderne se construit dans une économie préindustrielle, entraînée par le commerce des produits agricoles dans une société où les libertés sont longtemps confondues avec les privilèges des ordres sociaux et dans une culture largement vivifiée par la religion. La formation de l'État-nation est l'œuvre d'une monarchie sacralisée à perspective absolutiste, où le souverain ne parvient pas à s'adapter à la redéfinition de la nation au siècle des Lumières. Après un lent dégagement des conceptions féodales, la monarchie n'a pas été capable de maîtriser la question du pluralisme religieux, ni d'imposer une réforme progressive de la société pour en tirer une fiscalité à la hauteur de ses ambitions. Le refus politique d'association de la nation à la gestion de l'État, longtemps maîtrisé grâce à l'attachement des élites au partage financier des ressources de l'État fort, finit par asphyxier la monarchie lorsque l'enlisement des réformes se paie par la faillite. Pour cerner la vraie nature de l'absolutisme français, de sa naissance à sa crise ultime, huit chapitres thématiques replacent l'État royal dans son environnement géographique, économique, social, religieux et culturel. Trois chapitres dégagent ensuite les caractéristiques essentielles de chaque siècle ; enfin, des synthèses approfondissent quelques questions fondamentales pour l'histoire de la France moderne.

Monarchy --- History.

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In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and their solutions. The distinctive narrative structure of Dio’s work creates a unique sense of the past and allows us to see Roman history through a specific lens: that of a man who witnessed the Principate from the Antonines to the Severans. When Dio was writing, the Principate was a full-fledged historical fact, having experienced more than two hundred years of history, good and bad emperors, and three major civil wars. This collection of seven essays sets out to address these issues, and to see Dio not as an ‘adherent’ to or ‘advocate’ of monarchy, but rather as a theorist of its development and execution.

Monarchy --- Cassius Dio Cocceianus. --- Rome --- History --- Historiography.

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Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout the bloody 1200s, a particularly dramatic and violent period of European history. Wars, crusades, treachery, murder, passion, and the interplay between rival monarchs of Britain and France provide a surprising picture of these five ambitious women and their struggle for power. The queens covered in the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile. One of these queens became legendary when, accompanying her husband on crusade, she saved his life by sucking the blood from his poisoned-arrow wound. Equally intriguing are the descriptions of their marriages, including one that was extremely tempestuous, and one that was a love match turned sour when the jealous husband discovered his queen's infidelity and retaliated by killing her lovers and hanging their bodies from the canopy of her bed. This second volume of historian Alison Weir's critically acclaimed Medieval Queens series brings these unfamiliar, fascinating royals to life, demonstrating how very much they resemble self-determining women of our own time.

Queens --- Monarchy --- Monarchy --- History --- History --- Eleanor, --- Berengaria, --- Isabella, --- Eleanor, --- Eleanor, --- Plantagenet, House of. --- Great Britain --- History

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Monarchies and Decolonisation provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonization, and in its aftermath. With case studies drawn from former colonies in South and Southeast Asia, as well as Japan and Thailand, contributors examine the changes in forms of government - from colonial monarchies to those of independent states, from monarchies to republics, and from monarchies with empires to those which no longer had them - in the lead-up to the decolonization of India and Indonesia in the 1940s down to to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It shows how monarchies, with or without success, tried to accommodate the independence of former colonies, restructuring themselves for political transition, challenges from republicanism and radicalism and, in some cases, recasting themselves in the the wake of the loss of overseas empires. Looking at the phenomenon of hundreds of rulers of princely states in India and sultanates in Indonesia, the 'white rajahs' of Sarawak and such well-known figures as King Sihanouk of Cambodia and Emperor Hirohito of Japan, it develops new transnational and comparative insights into the institution of monarchy in modern Asia. With chapters written by internationally recognized scholars from half a dozen countries, the volume will prove valuable to historians of modern Asia, of colonialism and decolonisation, and of studies in modern monarchy.

Postcolonialism --- Monarchy --- Decolonization --- History --- Europe --- Colonies --- History. --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- History of Asia --- anno 1900-1999

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Monarchy --- Democracy --- Constitutional history --- Royal houses --- History --- History --- History --- Hirohito, --- Akihito, --- Japan --- Japan --- Politics and government --- Kings and rulers.