Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution

By William Beik

Book Overview

This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first comparative study in English to explore popular uprisings in the cities of seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of eyewitness narratives from protesters and authorities in more than fifteen cities, William Beik examines the complex social interaction between angry crowds and hard-pressed authorities. He adds a completely new chapter to the history of the crowd and traces the difficult and fragile connections between elite and popular culture in early modern France.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521573084
• ISBN13: 9780521573085
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"