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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 July 2009
      13 January 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511496950
      9780521551465
      9780521038294
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496950
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 364 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.552kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Diplomatic and International History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Diplomatic and International History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
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    This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of the eighteenth century. Through his participation in the Nine Years War (1688–97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, acquired a reputation for unrivalled 'Machiavellian' diplomacy on the international stage. The book puts this diplomacy in context, and considers how the duke raised men and money (at home and abroad), the administrative changes forced by war, the resulting domestic pressures, and how these were dealt with.

    Reviews

    ‘… of great interest not only to specialists but also to those interested in absolutism, modernization and the other meta-narratives currently on offer for seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Europe’.

    Source: The English Historical Review

    ‘… a significant contribution to the much-neglected field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian history … a welcome addition to the debate on the relationship between early modern state development and war.’

    Source: War in History

    ‘… the book makes an invaluable contribution to a growing collection of new studies of early modern Italian states.’

    Source: History

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