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A world of paper : Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state
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- OCLC: ocn870916762
- ISBN: 0773543708
- ISBN: 9780773543706
- ISBN: 0773592148
- ISBN: 9780773592148
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remote - Published: Montreal :McGill-Queen's University Press,2014.
- Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1 Louis XIV, Roi-Bureaucrate -- 2 Torcy's Preparation for and Rise to Power -- 3 Mentorship and Testing -- 4 The Department of Secretary of State Torcy -- 5 The Department's Structures and Personnel -- 6 The Triumph of the Commis -- 7 Finances and Rewards -- 8 Preserving, Deploying, and Controlling Information -- 9 Ambassadors in Paris and Abroad 354 Information and the Formulation of Foreign Policy -- 10 Conclusion -- 11 Domestic Administration. |
| Summary: | 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 last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. |
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