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State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France : A Study of Political Power and Social Revolution in Languedoc /
"The old regime province of Languedoc provides the setting for Stephen Miller's rich analysis of state and society relations in eighteenth-century France. Continuing where William Beik's pathbreaking seventeenth-century study ends, this book sheds new light on the origins of the Frenc...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Catholic University of America Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Peasant economy, the Seigneurial Regime, and the State. Landowners, market opportunities, and relations of production ; Seigneurial levies and the Royal Judiciary ; The Royal Judiciary and the authority and honor of the Seigneurs
- 2. The rewards of royal service. The Royal Judiciary : the police of hierarchy and rank ; Tax farms : the provincial fountains of wealth ; The estates of Languedoc : the apex of provincial patronage
- 3. Crown and nobility in a time of financial difficulties. State finances and the royal chain of command in the 1770s and 1780s ; The Central Administration, the Estates, and the Seigneurial Regime ; Royal policy toward town government and fiscal administrations ; The locus of power : the King or the provincial nobles?
- 4. Revolutionary politics, 1788-1791. The nobility and the bourgeoisie : common projects and divergent perspectives ; The Toulousain and Albigeois after July 1789 ; Nîmes, the southern Massif Central, and Montpellier after July 1789
- 5. The revolutionary dynamic, 1789-1793. The eighteenth-century economy : growth without development ; Popular uprisings amid grain shortages and the collapse of royal authority ; Social strife over the establishment of the New Regime ; The Seigneurial Regime, peasant revolts, and counterrevolution
- 6. Radicalism, terror, and repression, 1792-1799. The challenges of political representation and democracy ; Revolutionary policies and personalities ; Thermidor ; Making sense of the Sans Culottes' year in power.