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  3. Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511496776
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496776
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:
New Studies in European History
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This book examines the interface between the old and the new France in the period 1760–1820. It adopts an unusual 'comparative micro-historical' approach in order to illuminate the manner in which country dwellers cut themselves loose from the congeries of local societies that made up the Ancien Régime, and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The apprehensions and ambitions of six groups of villagers located in different parts of the kingdom are explored in close-up across the span of a single adult lifetime. Contrasting experiences form a large part of the analysis, but the story is ultimately one of fusion around a set of values that no individual villager could possibly have anticipated, whether in 1750 or 1789. The book is at once an institutional, a social and a political history of life in the village in an epoch of momentous change.

Reviews

‘Peter Jones [is] the most accomplished British historian of the French peasantry … his sensitivity to the patterns and concerns of rural life has a human feel of authenticity … Superb and innovative empirical research of this sort is a welcome counterpoint to the grander narratives which the French Revolution so understandably evokes.’

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

‘… outstanding … Those familiar with his work will not be surprised that the book is characterized by a deep familiarity with both national politics and the ‘revolution in the village’, expressed in succinct, lucid prose.’

Source: History

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