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Author : Norbert Elias
Release : 1983
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 046/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Court Society by : Norbert Elias
Download or read book The Court Society written by Norbert Elias. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of techniques used by rulers to assert leadership and social control includes a comparison of the regimes of Louis XIV in France and Adolf Hitler in Germany
Author : Christoph Rosenmüller
Release : 2008
Genre : Mexico
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Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues by : Christoph Rosenmüller
Download or read book Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues written by Christoph Rosenmüller. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenm ller reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexican history. Alburquerque was appointed by Spain's King Philip V at a time when expanding state power was beginning to meet with opposition in colonial Mexico. The Duke and his retainers, though seemingly working for the crown, actually built close alliances with locals to thwart the reform efforts emanating from Spain. Alburquerque collaborated with contraband traders and opposed the secularization of Indian parishes. He persecuted several local craftsmen and merchants, some of whom died after languishing in jail, accusing them of treason to bolster his own credentials as a loyal official. In the end, however, the dominant clique at the royal court in Madrid sought revenge. Alburquerque was forced to pay an unheard-of indemnity of 700,000 silver pesos to regain the king's favour. Dealing with a topic and period largely ignored by historiography, Rosenm ller exposes the vast patronage power of the viceroy at the historical watershed between the expiring Habsburg dynasty and the incoming Bourbon rulers. His analysis reveals that precursors of the Bourbon reforms and the struggle for Mexican independence were already at play in the early eighteenth century.
Author : Strootman Rolf Strootman
Release : 2020-07-13
Genre : Elite (Social sciences)
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Book Rating : 286/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires by : Strootman Rolf Strootman
Download or read book Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires written by Strootman Rolf Strootman. This book was released on 2020-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither 'western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.It demonstrates the interrelationships of the three competing 'Hellenistic' empires of the Seleukids, Antigonids and Ptolemies, casts new light on the phenomenon of Hellenistic Kingship by approaching it from the angle of the court and covers topics such as palace architecture, royal women, court ceremonial, and coronation ritual.
Author : Antony Spawforth
Release : 2007-10-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies by : Antony Spawforth
Download or read book The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies written by Antony Spawforth. This book was released on 2007-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court.
Author : John W. Wertheimer
Release : 2021-12-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Law and Society in the South by : John W. Wertheimer
Download or read book Law and Society in the South written by John W. Wertheimer. This book was released on 2021-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Society in the South reconstructs eight pivotal legal disputes heard in North Carolina courts between the 1830s and the 1970s and examines some of the most controversial issues of southern history, including white supremacy and race relations, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and Prohibition. Finally, the book explores the various ways in which law and society interacted in the South during the civil rights era. The voices of racial minorities-some urging integration, others opposing it-grew more audible within the legal system during this time. Law and Society in the South divulges the true nature of the courts: as the unpredictable venues of intense battles between southerners as they endured dramatic changes in their governing values.
