1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495878503321

Autore

Root Hilton L.

Titolo

Peasants and king in Burgundy : agrarian foundations of French absolutism / / Hilton L. Root

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1992]

©1987

ISBN

0-520-91334-5

0-585-18161-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 277 p. )

Collana

California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy ; ; 9

Disciplina

305.563

Soggetti

Land tenure

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 243-259.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The State, the Peasantry, and the Revolution -- 1. Louis XIV Builds a Peasant Kingdom -- 2. A Bureaucratic State in the Making -- 3. Village Assemblies and the General Will -- 4. The Politics of Agriculture -- 5. Challenging the Seigneurie: Community and Contention on the Eve of the Revolution -- 6. The Limits of Reform -- 7. Financing the French Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.