Class And State In Ancien Regime France

Author : David Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134777396
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class and State in Ancien Regime France written by David Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Parker's challenging interpretation presents a broad, in-depth study of the economic, social, ideological and political foundations of French Absolutism. This stimulating reassessment runs contrary to much revisionist historiography.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Regime and the Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271046171
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night the Old Regime Ended written by Michael P. Fitzsimmons and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Goubert
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780061318221
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancien Régime written by Pierre Goubert and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contains history and information about the French revolution. The society of the ancien regime is depicted as the author saw it and is offered as a handbook for facts and theory.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919736
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancien Regime and the Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.

Author : Cynthia Bouton
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271042109
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flour War written by Cynthia Bouton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom. Prices skyrocketed, causing riots to break out in April, first in the market town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, then sweeping through the Paris Basin for the next three weeks. Known as the Flour War, or the guerre des farines, these riots are the subject of Cynthia Bouton's fascinating study. Building upon French historian George Rud&é's pioneering work, Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War, analyzing them according to class, occupation, gender, and location. As typically happened, crowds of common people (menu peuple) confronted those who controlled the grain-bakers, merchants, millers, cultivators, and local authorities. Bouton asks why women of the menu peuple were heavily represented in the riots, often assuming crucial roles as instigators and leaders. In most instances, the people did not steal the provisions but forced those they cornered to sell at a price the rioters deemed &"just.&" Bouton examines this phenomenon, known as taxation populaire, and considers the growing &"sophistication of purpose&" of rioters by placing the Flour War within the larger context of food riots in early modern Europe.

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486476025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Regime and the French Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom."

Author : William H. Sewell, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521299510
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work and Revolution in France written by William H. Sewell, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004526110
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France written by Stephen Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the province of Languedoc as a microcosm for France as a whole, this comprehensively researched riveting narrative demonstrates the way in which the class relations enforced by the absolutist state brought about the revolutionary upheaval of 1789.

Author : David D. Bien
Publisher : Centre for French History and Culture of University of St. Andrews
ISBN 13 : 9781907548024
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caste, Class and Profession in Old Regime France written by David D. Bien and published by Centre for French History and Culture of University of St. Andrews. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1974, David D. Bien's essay on the nature of nobility in old regime France pivoted around the 1781 "Ségur regulation" that required four generations of nobility for most officers entering the army. Once seen as a classic manifestation of the so-called "aristocratic reaction" against commoners, the loi Ségur, in Bien's deft analysis, instead emerges as a telling sign of tensions within an increasingly divided nobility. While exploding crude myths about class conflict and its causative role in the Revolution, Bien mounts a strong case for viewing eighteenth-century social tensions as the product of professional identity as much as social class. This study is presented here for the first time in English with a short preface by Rafe Blaufarb, and a wide-ranging introduction by Jay M. Smith that places Bien's work in the wider context of historical thinking over the past half-century on the origins of the French Revolution.