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Feudalism, venality, and revolution : Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France /
According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Studies in early modern European history.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The king's entourage and public clashes over provincial assemblies
- The emergence of anti-noble politics and the provincial assembly of Berry
- Bourgeois liberalism and revolutionary politics : the provincial assembly of Lyonnais
- Poitou and the question of feudalism, from the Old Regime to revolution and counterrevolution
- Provincial assemblies and the revolutionary challenge to patrimonialism
- Village elections and the development of liberal perspectives on government.