Ben S Trotter: 1 book
A World of Paper
Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign...
