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The French nobility in the eighteenth century : reassessments and new approaches /
Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism
- I. Nobility and Economy
- 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France
- 2. Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime
- 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy
- 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750-1789
- II. Nobility and Political Culture
- 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789
- 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy
- 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy
- III. Nobility and ""Aristocratic Reaction
- 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l'Esrit des Lois
- 9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d'Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility
- 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution
- IV. Nobility and Modernity
- 11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820-1960
- For Further Reading
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover