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Liberty and locality in revolutionary France : six villages compared, 1760-1820 / Peter Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Peter, 1949- author.
- Series:
- New studies in European history.
- New studies in European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Politics and government--1789-1815.
- France.
- France--Rural conditions--18th century.
- France--Rural conditions--19th century.
- France--Social conditions--18th century.
- France--Social conditions--19th century.
- France--History--Louis XV, 1715-1774.
- France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
- France--History--1789-1815.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Liberty & Locality in Revolutionary France
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the interface between the old and the new France in the period 1760-1820. It adopts an unusual 'comparative micro-historical' approach in order to illuminate the manner in which country dwellers cut themselves loose from the congeries of local societies that made up the Ancien Régime, and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The apprehensions and ambitions of six groups of villagers located in different parts of the kingdom are explored in close-up across the span of a single adult lifetime. Contrasting experiences form a large part of the analysis, but the story is ultimately one of fusion around a set of values that no individual villager could possibly have anticipated, whether in 1750 or 1789. The book is at once an institutional, a social and a political history of life in the village in an epoch of momentous change.
- Contents:
- 1. Mise-en-scene
- 2. The structures of village life towards the end of the ancien regime
- 3. Agendas for change: 1787-1790
- 4. A new civic landscape
- 5. Sovereignty in the village
- 6. Church and state in miniature
- 7. Land of liberty?
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107136694
- 1107136695
- 9781280162572
- 1280162570
- 9781139148924
- 1139148923
- 9780511121241
- 0511121245
- 9780511061929
- 0511061927
- 9780511055591
- 0511055595
- 9780511307799
- 0511307799
- 9780511496776
- 051149677X
- 9780511070389
- 0511070381
- OCLC:
- 57300275
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