Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France
Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820
Series: New Studies in European History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 19 July 2007
- ISBN 9780521037846
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 225x151x18 mm
- Weight 486 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w illus. 10 maps 3 tables 0
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Short description:
A comparative 'micro-history' for the period between the old and the new France, 1760-1820.
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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 R&&&233;gime, 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.
'Peter Jones [is] the most accomplished British historian of the French peasantry ... his sensitivity to the patterns and concerns of rural life has a human feel of authenticity ... Superb and innovative empirical research of this sort is a welcome counterpoint to the grander narratives which the French Revolution so understandably evokes.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mise-en-sc&&&232;ne; 2. The structures of village life towards the end of the ancien r&&&233;gime; 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?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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