Louis Xiv, Aristocratic Power and the Elite Units of the French Army

Rowlands, Guy

doi:10.1093/fh/13.3.303

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“…342,000 regular troups, of which • 277,000 infantry, including abount 37,000 officers. 42 • 65,000 mounted troops (including 10,000 members of the maison militaire du roi, which is now an elite troop, composed of high nobility and the royal families, but also around 3,000 Swiss guards and 4,000 nonnoble gardes francaises, as shown by Rowlands [1999]), including 7,333 officers. • Of these 342,000 regular troops, 74,000 were mercenaries 43 (including some Frenchmen from Alsace and Roussillon) and 270,000 régnicoles (subjects of the king born in France).…”

Section: Th-century Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism

Kroneberg

Wimmer

2012

American Journal of Sociology

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This article explores the conditions under which political modernization leads to nation building, to the politicization of ethnic cleavages, or to populism by modeling these three outcomes as more or less encompassing exchange relationships between state elites, counterelites, and the population. Actors seek coalitions that grant them the most advantageous exchange of taxation against public goods and of military support against political participation. Modeling historical data on the distribution of these resources in France and the Ottoman Empire from 1500 to 1900 shows that nation building results from strong state centralization and well-established civil societies; ethnic closure, from weak state capacity and civil societies; and populism, from medium centralization and weak civil societies. The results are consistent with French and Ottoman political histories of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Western nation-state is based on a new form of drawing political boundaries, replacing the horizontal strata of agricultural empires with the vertical division between various national communities and their respective states. In many modernizing states in the global South, however,

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Section: Th-century Francementioning

confidence: 99%