Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France : Six Villages Compared, 1760–1820
by
Peter Jones
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Studies in European History
ISBN-10
0521037840
ISBN-13
9780521037846
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 19th, 2007
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
31.20 x 29.20 x 2.00 cms
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This is a 'comparative micro-historical' study attempted for the period between the old and the new France, 1760–1820, which offers a striking perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.
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 Régime, 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.
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