Absolutism in central Europe - Peter Wilson

Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined
by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it
has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety
of disciplines have defined and explained political development across what was formerly known as the 'age of absolutism'. It assesses whether the term still has utility as a tool
of analysis and it explores the wider ramifications of the process of state-formation from the experience of central Europe from the early seventeenth century to the start of the nineteenth.