"In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing instead on the development of republicanism during this period. Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment aims to correct this imbalanc…
"The Place of Exile is a study of the margins, whether real or imagined, of absolutist culture in seventeenth-century France. Juliette Cherbuliez follows the novel and related genres through an ever-widening territory of disaffection from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's …
"Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing…