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Urban rivalries in the French Revolution /
The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted Margadant tells a lively story of the process of pol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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