 | State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe Subjects: Aristocracy (Political science) -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Aristrocracy (Political science) -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- 17th; State and Status is an examination of the rise of the centralized state and its effect on the power of the aristocracy in the British Isles and in France and its eastern periphery during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Clark Samuel : Samuel Clark is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Western Ontario and author of State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe. |
