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

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 momentous change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521037840
• ISBN13: 9780521037846
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"