num_pages: 322
description: This comparative micro-historical study for the transitional period between the old and the new France (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves from the congeries of local societies that made up the ancien rgime and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.
language: English
title: Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760–1820
publisher: Cambridge University Press