The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (European Culture & Society Series)

by JeremyBlack (Editor), JerzyLukowski (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $61.56

  And what role did women play in shoring up noble pre-eminence?In this wide-ranging study, Jerzy Lukowski addresses these issues, and shows the pressures and tensions - both from governments and from the lower orders - which challenged traditional ruling groups in Europe during the century before the French Revolution.