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5.0 out of 5 stars
Careful scholarship,
This review is from: Assimilation and Acculturation in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Roussillon and France, 1659-1715 (Contributions to the Study of World History) (Hardcover)
Dr. David Stewart has written a solid piece of scholarship, characterized by workmanlike though lively prose and convincing evidence and argumentation. This book should have been more widely recognized for the way it corrobates certain approaches to complex regional idenities in the early modern period (c.f. Linda Colley and Peter Sahlins) as well as for the way it complicates many of our assumptions about the reign of Louis XIV. While we have known for quite some time that Louis XIV was not without failures in his foreign policy, historians have generally characterized his "domestic situation" as stable, peaceful, etc. with little resistance to his centralization of the interior. Stewart makes it quite clear that these views are in need of revision (though he probably could have pointed out more forecefully the significance of his conclusions). The Catalans would tolerate little attenuation of their cultural autonomy. In order for Louis to exercise any political authority in trans-Pyrenean Catalunya, the monarchy was forced into negotiations. So much for absolutism!
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Assimilation and Acculturation in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Roussillon and France, 1659-1715 (Contributions to the Study of World History) by David Stewart (Hardcover - January 30, 1997)
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