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Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820 (New Studies in European History)
Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France Six Villages Compared 17601820 - New Studies in European History Author:Peter Jones 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 Nap... more »oleonic state. The result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.« less