Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France
Author : Lynn Avery Hunt
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804709408
Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution
Author : Alan Forrest
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780340564349
Book Description
Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of Paris, and the mediations of different political cultures, which ensured that provincial France made a distinctive contribution to the history of the Revolutionary years.
Essays on the French Revolution
Author : Steven G. Reinhardt
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890964989
Book Description
Clarke Garrett examines the differing responses of Catholics and Protestants and the resulting disturbances. Roderick Phillips describes the wide variation in provincial response to the revolutionary assembly's family reform measures. He traces the different reactions of urban and rural residents to such legal measures as liberalization of divorces, secularization of birth, death, and marriage registrations, and inheritance reform. Peasants in central France were already engaged in total revolution when Joseph Fouche arrived there in late 1793. Nancy Fitch argues that Fouche was formed by his encounter with indigenous peasant radicalism as much as the peasants were influenced by his rhetoric of a new political culture. Donald Sutherland, summarizing scholarly debate on the subject, argues that, in the final analysis, the Revolution itself was tragically and profoundly alien to many French men and women in 1789.
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1526148366
Book Description
According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The Soldiers of the French Revolution
Author : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822309352
Book Description
In this work Alan Forrest brings together some of the recent research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Forrest places the armies of the Revolution in a broader social and political context by presenting the effects of war and militarization on French society and government in the Revolutionary period. Revolutionary idealists thought of the French soldier as a willing volunteer sacrificing himself for the principles of the Revolution; Forrest examines the convergence of these ideals with the ordinary, and often dreadful, experience of protracted warfare that the soldier endured.
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1794
Category : France
ISBN :
Book Description
Jacobin Republic Under Fire
Author : Paul R. Hanson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271047928
Book Description
It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
The Coming of the French Revolution
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0691206937
Book Description
The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history “from below”—a Marxist approach—and in this book he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition offers perennial insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.
The Revolution in Provincial France
Author : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198206163
Book Description
This book presents a provincial view of the French Revolution and assesses the experience of revolution across a broad swathe of southwestern France, in an area which increasingly looked to Bordeaux as its capital city. Here the Revolution was not simply a pale reflection of events in Paris. Local conflicts and personal rivalries are vital to our understanding of the shape of events in the region, as are contrasting traditions of religious affiliation, peasant radicalism, and obedience to the state. The book examines the Revolution within a thematic framework, and discusses such aspects as the growth of a local political culture, the incidence of rural insurrection, religious responses to the Revolution, the chequered appeal of federalism, and the uneven experience of Terror and political repression.
