Introduction, 1: What was France in a Troubled Time?, 2: Renaissance France, 3: The Wars of Religion, 4: The War-State, 5: The Costs of a Global War State, 6: A Global France, 7: A New Nation
Biography
Keith P. Luria is Professor of History Emeritus at North Carolina State University, U.S.A, where he has taught early modern French and European history, as well as medieval and early modern world history. His previous works include Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (1991) and Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France (2005).
“In his lucid and engaging new book on early modern France, Luria shifts the lens to illuminate a society profoundly reshaped through its participation in global as well as local forces of change. Here, alterations in climate and the environment, the expansion of global economic networks, the trans-national circulation of ideas, military conflicts among other trans-regional forces acted upon the political and social body of France, reshaping its institutions, practices and people in the process. This is a nuanced, and welcome departure from the more nation-centred studies that typically ground early modern scholarship on France and Europe more generally.”
Megan C. Armstrong, McMaster University
