A Show of Hands for the Republic : Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France /
In 1796, Thomas Bordas was indicted for ""seditious speech"" after proposing a simple vote -- a ""show of hands""--To determine who wanted a republic, and who wanted a king. In 'A Show of Hands for the Republic', Jill Maciak Walshaw uses hundreds of...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- La France profonde? : news and political information in the village
- From Émotion Populaire to seditious words : rural protest in the Ancien Regime
- Bringing them into the fold : the struggle against ignorance and dissent in the French Revolution
- "Long live Louis XVII" : the prosecution of seditious speech during the French Revolution
- Tricksters, dupes, and drunkards : truth and untruth in the search for rural political opinion.