John C Rule: 2 books
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...
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...