Liberty and locality in revolutionary France : six villages compared, 1760-1820 / / Peter Jones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811576403321
• Autore: Jones Peter <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-13669-5; 1-280-16257-0; 1-139-14892-3; 0-511-12124-5; 0-511-06192-7; 0-511-05559-5; 0-511-30779-9; 0-511-49677-X; 0-511-07038-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: New studies in European history
• Disciplina: 944.034
• Soggetti: France Politics and government 1789-1815; France Rural conditions 18th century; France Rural conditions 19th century; France Social conditions 18th century; France Social conditions 19th century; France History Louis XV, 1715-1774; France History Louis XVI, 1774-1793; France History 1789-1815
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Mise-en-scene -- ; 2. The structures of village life towards the end of the ancien regime -- ; 3. Agendas for change: 1787-1790 -- ; 4. A new civic landscape -- ; 5. Sovereignty in the village -- ; 6. Church and state in miniature -- ; 7. Land of liberty?
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the interface between the old and the new France in the period 1760-1820. It adopts an unusual 'comparative micro-; historical' approach in order to illuminate the manner in which country dwellers cut themselves loose from the congeries of local societies that made up the Ancien Régime, and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The apprehensions and ambitions of six groups of villagers located in different parts of the kingdom are explored in close-up across the span of a single adult lifetime. Contrasting experiences form a large part of the analysis, but the story is ultimately one of fusion around a set of values that no individual villager could possibly have anticipated, whether in 1750 or 1789. The book is at once an institutional, a social and a political history of life in the village in an epoch of momentous change.