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About this book/synopsis: Events since 1989 have provided a vivid contemporary reminder that Europe's political structure was not always in the form of a small number of unitary and integrated nation states. In the foothills of modernity Europe was dominated by a multiplicity of regional entities: for the most part smaller than nation states, they were none the less remarkably durable and robust, only gradually surrendering their independence or slowly accepting coalescence into a larger entity. The transition was once broadly understood as the ineluctable domination of the continent by the 'successful' few. But as the case-studies in this book make clear, the reality was more complex. Europe's political development needs to be understood not just from the vantage points of Louis XIV's Versailles, Philip IV's Buen Retiro palace or Frederick the Great's Potsdam but also from the periphery - from Flanders, Portugal and Bohemia. Nine studies by leading scholars examine the piecemeal aggrandisement and integration - from Ireland to the Ukraine - that determined the emerging state pattern of ancien regime Europe. In place of facile assumptions of Europe's rulers, they demonstrate more intricate, more variegated developments in which both ruler and ruled participated Chapters: |
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