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

ISBN-13: 9780521037846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 324 str.

Peter Jones

Opis

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 regime, 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.