Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820

by Peter Jones

2021-01-01 01:29:10

This "comparative micro-historical" study for the transitional period between the old and the new France, (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves from the congeries of local societies that ma... Read more
This "comparative micro-historical" study for the transitional period between the old and the new France, (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves 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 result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change. Less

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File size8.86 X 5.94 X 0.71 in
Print pages324
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 19, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521037846
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Peter Jones is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution....

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