State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France : : A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc. Revised and Updated Edition / / Stephen Miller.
Taking the province of Languedoc as a microcosm for France as a whole, this comprehensively researched riveting narrative demonstrates the way in which the class relations enforced by the absolutist state brought about the revolutionary upheaval of 1789.
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series ; 263 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Peasant Economy, Seigneurial Regime, and State
- Chapter 2. The Rewards of Royal Service
- Chapter 3. Crown and Nobility in a Time of Financial Difficulties: Royal Policy 1758-89
- Chapter 4. Revolutionary Politics 1788-91: Despotism and Equality
- Chapter 5. Popular Revolts, Political Authority and the Revolutionary Dynamic, 1789-93
- Chapter 6. Politics and Class, 1792-99: Radicalism, Terror, and Repression
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.