LEADER 04676nam 2200625 450 001 9910782992003321 005 20230207230042.0 010 $a0-271-04995-2 010 $a0-271-03587-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271035871 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722869 035 $a(OCoLC)316642775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532260 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158329 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149282 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158329 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10145325 035 $a(PQKB)10461648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3385023 035 $a(OCoLC)1080549560 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224423 035 $a(DE-B1597)584113 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271035871 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722869 100 $a20200930d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe French nobility in the eighteenth century $ereassessments and new approaches /$fedited by Jay M. Smith 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2006] 210 4$d©2006 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-271-02898-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Nobility After Revisionism --$tI. Nobility and Economy --$t1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France --$t2. A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime --$t3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy --$t4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750 ?1789 --$tII. Nobility and Political Culture --$t5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789 --$t6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy --$t7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy --$tIII. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction" --$t8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l?Esprit des Lois --$t9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d?Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility --$t10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution --$tIV. Nobility and Modernity --$t11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820 ?1960 --$tFor Further Reading --$tList of Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aHistorians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France?s past. The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential ?revisionist? assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret?s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret?s revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time, they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century?s narrative about eighteenth-century France? The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb, Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright. 606 $aNobility$zFrance$xHistoriography 606 $aNobility$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial classes$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aNobility$xHistoriography. 615 0$aNobility$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 676 $a305.522094409033 702 $aSmith$b Jay M.$f1961- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782992003321 996 $aThe French nobility in the eighteenth century$93703406 997 $aUNINA