Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France

by Peter Jones

Book Overview

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 r?gime, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521821770
• ISBN13: 9780521821773
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"