Enlightened despotism, by John G. Gagliardo.

HARDBACK ""UK EDITION,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1968 * Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Dull grey blue cloth covered boards, silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dated owners name (Oct 1979) and Foyles label to prelims. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. Includes Foyles payment slip. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 102 pp. text. xvii pp. bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The phrase ""Enlightened Despotism"" came into existence in the works of nineteenth-century historians as an unproved assumption about a certain period of European history in the eighteenth century. It would not be an exaggeration to say that much of the history of the phrase since it's inception has revolved around the attempt to find out whether it means anything and, if so, exactly what. In 1928, at the behest of a prominent French Historian, an international committee was set up to consider the question and this book follows the discussion and conclusions.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minimal faults reducing it to VG++. No dust jacket.*