The English monarchy and the crisis of the "Ancien Regime": controversy and political identities during the second half of the XVIII century
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https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i5.101Keywords:
England, historiography, ancient regime, mixed monarchyAbstract
This essay will try to expose the elements that made the Anglo-Saxon historiography describe England at the XVIII century as a society of “Ancien Regime”. The notion of mixed monarchy is wrong if used to describe the political reality of the Hannoverian England.
Submission date: 12/12/2003
Acceptance date: 21/03/2004
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