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Author Kettering, Sharon, 1942-

Title Patrons, brokers, and clients in seventeenth-century France / Sharon Kettering
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (x, 322 pages)
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
Analysis France Government Patronage, 1600-1700
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Patron and client -- France -- History -- 17th century
Patronage, Political -- France -- History -- 17th century
Decentralization in government -- France -- History -- 17th century
Administración local -- Francia -- Historia.
Oligarquía -- Francia -- Historia.
HISTORY.
Decentralization in government
Patron and client
Patronage, Political
Politics and government
Zentralisation
Zentralismus
Adel
Patronage
Cliëntelisme.
Patronage.
Overheid.
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051465
Subject Francia -- Historia -- 1589-1789 (Casa de Borbón)
France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 85013820
ISBN 9780195365108
0195365100
1280523042
9781280523045