The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789-1799

ISBN-13: 9780198206163 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 392 str.

Alan Forrest

Opis

This scholarly account presents a provincial view of Revolutionary France and describes a region far removed from high politics in Paris. It shows how local conflicts and personal rivalries shaped events within the region, and emphasizes the importance of religion, war, peasant radicalism and commercial stagnation in defining the course of the Revolution in the south-west.

Recenzje

Beginning with the period before the revolution and continuing through the Directory, Forrest provides a careful, well-documented study of the impact of these tumultuous years on one French province. This study is an excellent addition to regional histories of the revolution. Forrest does well in navigating the reader through the maze of local politics and their importance in determining a village or town's reaction and events. in addition, he provides maps so that the reader can follow the geographic and political divisions and their association with the variations in responses to the revolution. Most importantly, The Revolution in Provincial France reminds us that this period was not only played out in Paris and provincial cities, but also in the most remote parts of the hexagon.