"How far and in what ways did economic and social developments in eighteenth-century Europe undermine the stability of the "ancien-regime"?"

A must-read for everybody who cares about eighteenth-century Europe. I wrote it as an undergraduate student at Edinburgh University.
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"How far and in what ways did economic and social developments in eighteenth-century Europe undermine the stability of the "ancien-regime"?"