Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760 1820

This "comparative micro-historical" study for the transitional period between the old and the new France, (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves 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 result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.

• | Author: Peter Jones
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 324 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521037840
• | ISBN-13: 9780521037846