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Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France : The Culture of Retribution
Urban Protest in SeventeenthCentury France The Culture of Retribution Author:William Beik This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first comparative study in English to explore popular uprisings in the cities of seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of eyewitness narratives from protesters and authorities in more than fifteen cities, William Beik examines the complex social interaction between angry crowds and hard-pres... more »sed authorities. He adds a completely new chapter to the history of the crowd and traces the difficult and fragile connections between elite and popular culture in early modern France.« less