Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: THE INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Towns and the Old Regime
  • CHAPTER 2 The New Division of the Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 3 Urban Crisis and Bourgeois Ambition
  • PART TWO: THE RHETORIC AND POLITICS OF SPACE
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 4 The Rhetoric of Contention
  • CHAPTER 5 The Politics of Parochialism
  • CHAPTER 6 Urban Rivalries and the Formation of Departments
  • CHAPTER 7 Disputes over the Seats of Departments
  • CHAPTER 8 The Struggle for Districts and Tribunals
  • PART THREE: THE FATE OF SMALL TOWNS
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 9 Judicial Reform and the Politicization of Urban Rivalries
  • CHAPTER 10 The New Urban Hierarchy
  • CHAPTER 11 The French Revolution and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX 1. Statistical Procedures
  • APPENDIX 2. Population Size Estimates and Institutional Characteristics of Major Towns
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF PLACE NAMES
  • GENERAL INDEX