Jill Walshaw A Show of Hands for the Republic

Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-58046-840-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 322 Seiten

Reihe: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jill Walshaw, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
La France Profonde? News and Political Information in the Village
From Émotion Populaire to Seditious Words: Rural Protest in the Ancien Régime
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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index