| Author |
Kettering, Sharon, 1942-
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| Subject |
Patron and client -- France -- History -- 17th century.
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Patronage, Political -- France -- History -- 17th century.
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Decentralization in government -- France -- History -- 17th century.
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France -- Politics and government -- 17th century.
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| Description |
1 online resource (x, 322 pages) |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Power and patronage -- One: Patrons and clients. General characteristics of patron-client relationships -- Fidelity relationships -- Variability among patrons and clients -- Two: Brokers. General characteristics of brokers -- Variability among brokers -- Three: Clienteles. Clienteles and provincial institutions -- Great noble and administrative clienteles -- Four: Brokers and political integration. Brokers and institutions -- Brokers as troubleshooters -- Brokers and intendants -- Five: Brokerage and the nobility. Sixteenth-century brokers of royal patronage -- Seventeenth-century brokers of royal patronage -- Noble power and brokerage -- Six: Clientelism and the early modern state. Clientelism and conflict -- Clientelism and corruption -- Clientelism and change -- Epilogue: Cientelism and bureaucracy -- Conclusion: Nobles, brokers, and statebuilding -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
This new study of politics and power in seventeenth-century France argues that the French crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9780195365108 (electronic bk.) |
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0195365100 (electronic bk.) |
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1280523042 |
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9781280523045 |
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9780195036732 |
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0195036735 (alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
655789947 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Kettering, Sharon, 1942- Patrons, brokers, and clients in seventeenth-century France. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 9780195036732 (DLC) 85013820 (OCoLC)12237753 |
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