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The Great Fear of 1789 : Rural Panic in Revolutionary France / Georges Lefebvre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lefebvre, Georges, author.
- Series:
- Princeton legacy library.
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Standardized Title:
- Grande peur de 1789. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions.
- Peasants--France.
- Peasants.
- France--Economic conditions.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of Maps
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Glossary
- Part I. The Countryside in 1789
- Part II. The 'Aristocrats' Plot'
- Part III. The Great Fear
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliographical Notes
- Index of Place Names
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published in 1982.
- Translation of La grande peur de 1789.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4008-5579-9
- OCLC:
- 899261301
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