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Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624 1642

Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624 1642

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

French HistoryOther Wars

ISBN10: 0521792096
ISBN13: 9780521792097
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 6 2001
Pages: 628
Weight: 2.39
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It is assumed widely that war made the state in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold on France and heightened levels of political and social tension. This is the first detailed account of the French army during this formative period of European history. It also contributes more generally to the military revolution debate among early modern historians.

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