The third reign of Louis XIV, c.1682-1715 / edited by Julia Prest and Guy Rowlands.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Guy Rowlands and Julia Prest -- The ministers of the third reign / Emmanuel P�enicaut -- Royal finances in the third reign of Louis XIV / Guy Rowlands -- Crisis and survival: provincial government during the third reign / Darryl Dee -- Naval policy in an age of fiscal overextension / Benjamin Darnell -- Reluctant expansionists: Louis XIV, the ministers of colonies and the founding of D�etroit / Sara E. Chapman -- Mercantilism, corporate organization and the guilds in the later reign of Louis XIV / Clare Haru Crowston -- Social problems, social policies and the economy in the later reign / Robin Briggs -- Rebellion and coexistence: protestants in the third reign of Louis XIV / W. Gregory Monahan -- The Catholic Church and its dissenters, 1685-1715 / Mark Bryant -- The politics of opera under Louis XIV: dissident descendants in the third reign / Julia Prest -- Literature and intellectual life / Michael Moriarty -- Childhood all around: architecture and the fine arts at the end of the reign of Louis XIV / Thierry Sarmant.