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“Estates-General” as a book category covers works about representative assemblies of the social “estates” in premodern Europe, centered on the French Estates-General where clergy, nobility, and the Third Estate met. It includes histories of the institution’s origins, structure, elections, and procedures; the 1789 convocation and its debates (voting by order vs. by head), the cahiers de doléances, and the body’s transformation into the National Assembly; primary sources such as proceedings, pamphlets, and speeches; biographies of key figures (e.g., Sieyès, Mirabeau, Necker, Louis XVI); and analyses of the estates system, fiscal crisis, and reform that fed into the French Revolution. The category may also include comparative studies of analogous bodies (Dutch States General, Spanish Cortes, German and Scandinavian diets) and works on the institution’s legacy in constitutionalism and political culture.

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