A world of paper : Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state /

Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. This book offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's...

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Main Authors: Rule, John C. (Author), Trotter, Ben S., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
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