Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France
Subtitle: Six Villages Compared, 17601820 (New Studies in European History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521037846
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Local history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; History / Europe / General; History / France; Europe - General
First sentence: This study first encounters the village in the culminating decades of the ancien regime, a period of some thirty or forty years during which a totalisting vision of administrative monarchy took hold of France.