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A lot of people think they know what absolutism is, but do they really?
Discord: discord.gg/historyofeverything
Odds are, for the majority of people what they see as absolutism is actually authoritarianism. For this video I have used an academic piece that I wrote for my university to explore in depth what absolutism is and to contextualise it in the modern era.
I would say my uni's name but I don't particularly want to be doxed... not if I can help it.
Primary Sources
Finnsson, Ari Hallgrímur. "“Louis Must Die, Because the Nation Must Live”: Blood, National Regeneration, and the Execution of Louis XVI." Canadian Journal of History 57, no. 1 (2022): 1-21.
LA Times. 2022. "A Spiritual Defense of The War in Ukraine? Putin’s Patriarch Is Trying", , 2022. latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-29/russian-orthodox-patriarch-offers-a-spiritual-defense-of-the-war-in-ukraine.
Meredith, Sam. 2022. "Russia Arrests Over 1,300 As Anti-War Protests Erupt Over Putin’s Partial Military Call-Up". CNBC, , 2022. cnbc.com/2022/09/22/ukraine-war-russia-arrests-over-1300-after-putin-mobilizes-troops.html.
Office of the President of the Russian Federation. 2022. "Executive Order on Partial Mobilisation in The Russian Federation". Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defence.
Realities, North. 2022. "Russian Lawmakers Who Demanded Putin Be Charged with Treason Summoned by Police". Radiofreeeurope, , 2022. rferl.org/a/russian-putin-treason-lawmakers/32025878.html. Office of the President of the Russian Federation. 2022. "Executive Order on Partial Mobilisation in The Russian Federation". Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defence.
The Guardian. 2022. Putin Compares Himself to Peter the Great in Russian Territorial Push. Video. youtube.com/watch?v=N2sfJjl7_Zk.
Vogel, Claude. "PACKARD, The Age of Louis XIV (Book Review)." Catholic Historical Review 16 (1930): 72.
Secondary Sources
Bonnell, Victoria, and George W Breslauer. 2001. Russia in The New Century. 1st ed. Boulder: Routledge.
Doyle, William. 1989. Oxford History of The French Revolution. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Durand, G. 1976. ‘Chapter 2: What Is Absolutism?’ In Louis XIV and Absolutism, 18–36. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fox, Paul W. 1960. "Louis XIV And the Theories of Absolutism and Divine Right". Cambridge University Press 26 (1): 128. doi:10.2307/138824.
Goldman, Marshall I. "Putin and the Oligarchs." Foreign Aff. 83 (2004): 33.
Lynn, John A. 2002. The French Wars 1667-1714. 1st ed. New York: Osprey Publishing.
Magill, Frank N. 1993. Magill's History of Europe. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Educational Corp.
Massie, Robert K. Peter the Great: His life and world. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1981.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels. 1973. From Theology to History: French Religious Controversy and The Revocation of The Edict of Nantes. 1st ed. The Hague: M. Nijhoff.
Petro, Nicolai N. "The Russian Orthodox Church." In Routledge Handbook of Russian foreign policy, pp. 217-232. Routledge, 2018.
Powicke, Frederick M. 1960. The Loss of Normandy. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Pr.
Ranum, Orest. 1963. Richelieu and The Great Nobility. 3rd ed. Raleigh: Duke University Press.
Treisman, Daniel. "Putin Unbound: How Repression at Home Presaged Belligerence Abroad." Foreign Aff. 101 (2022): 40.
Wilkinson, Ricahrd. 2017. Louis XIV. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
A lot of people think they know what absolutism is, but do they really?
Discord: discord.gg/historyofeverything
Odds are, for the majority of people what they see as absolutism is actually authoritarianism. For this video I have used an academic piece that I wrote for my university to explore in depth what absolutism is and to contextualise it in the modern era.
I would say my uni's name but I don't particularly want to be doxed... not if I can help it.
Primary Sources
Finnsson, Ari Hallgrímur. "“Louis Must Die, Because the Nation Must Live”: Blood, National Regeneration, and the Execution of Louis XVI." Canadian Journal of History 57, no. 1 (2022): 1-21.
LA Times. 2022. "A Spiritual Defense of The War in Ukraine? Putin’s Patriarch Is Trying", , 2022. latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-29/russian-orthodox-patriarch-offers-a-spiritual-defense-of-the-war-in-ukraine.
Meredith, Sam. 2022. "Russia Arrests Over 1,300 As Anti-War Protests Erupt Over Putin’s Partial Military Call-Up". CNBC, , 2022. cnbc.com/2022/09/22/ukraine-war-russia-arrests-over-1300-after-putin-mobilizes-troops.html.
Office of the President of the Russian Federation. 2022. "Executive Order on Partial Mobilisation in The Russian Federation". Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defence.
Realities, North. 2022. "Russian Lawmakers Who Demanded Putin Be Charged with Treason Summoned by Police". Radiofreeeurope, , 2022. rferl.org/a/russian-putin-treason-lawmakers/32025878.html. Office of the President of the Russian Federation. 2022. "Executive Order on Partial Mobilisation in The Russian Federation". Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defence.
The Guardian. 2022. Putin Compares Himself to Peter the Great in Russian Territorial Push. Video. youtube.com/watch?v=N2sfJjl7_Zk.
Vogel, Claude. "PACKARD, The Age of Louis XIV (Book Review)." Catholic Historical Review 16 (1930): 72.
Secondary Sources
Bonnell, Victoria, and George W Breslauer. 2001. Russia in The New Century. 1st ed. Boulder: Routledge.
Doyle, William. 1989. Oxford History of The French Revolution. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Durand, G. 1976. ‘Chapter 2: What Is Absolutism?’ In Louis XIV and Absolutism, 18–36. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fox, Paul W. 1960. "Louis XIV And the Theories of Absolutism and Divine Right". Cambridge University Press 26 (1): 128. doi:10.2307/138824.
Goldman, Marshall I. "Putin and the Oligarchs." Foreign Aff. 83 (2004): 33.
Lynn, John A. 2002. The French Wars 1667-1714. 1st ed. New York: Osprey Publishing.
Magill, Frank N. 1993. Magill's History of Europe. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Educational Corp.
Massie, Robert K. Peter the Great: His life and world. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1981.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels. 1973. From Theology to History: French Religious Controversy and The Revocation of The Edict of Nantes. 1st ed. The Hague: M. Nijhoff.
Petro, Nicolai N. "The Russian Orthodox Church." In Routledge Handbook of Russian foreign policy, pp. 217-232. Routledge, 2018.
Powicke, Frederick M. 1960. The Loss of Normandy. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Pr.
Ranum, Orest. 1963. Richelieu and The Great Nobility. 3rd ed. Raleigh: Duke University Press.
Treisman, Daniel. "Putin Unbound: How Repression at Home Presaged Belligerence Abroad." Foreign Aff. 101 (2022): 40.
Wilkinson, Ricahrd. 2017. Louis XIV. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
