Western and Southern Europe

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Western and Southern Europe

edited by H.M. Scott

(The European nobilities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, v. 1)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

2nd ed

  • : hbk

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Originally published: London : Longman, 1995

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Essays with national approaches provide unique coverage of Europe's Old Regime nobilities, from Britain to Russia and from Sweden to Portugal, framed by a substantial comparative editorial introduction and concluded by a survey of the fate of the nobilities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

  • List of Maps List of Tables Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary of Technical Terms Introduction: The Consolidation of Noble Power in Europe, c. 1600-1800
  • H.Scott & Christopher Storrs The British Nobility, 1660-1800
  • John Cannon The Dutch Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • J.L.Price The French Nobility, 1610-1715
  • Roger Mettam The French Nobility, 1715-1789
  • Julian Swann The Nobility in Spain, 1600-1800
  • I.A.A.Thompson Nobility and Aristocracy in Ancien Regime Portugal (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
  • Nuno Goncalo Monteiro The Italian Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Claudio Donati Guides to Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

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