Jerzy Lukowski shows the pressures and tensions, both from below and from governments, which increasingly challenged traditional ruling groups in Europe during

In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volu

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An authoritative and accessible survey of the European nobility over four centuries.

Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740–1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images