TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ted W Margadant
AU  - Ted W Margadant
TI  - Urban rivalries in the French Revolution
SN  - 9780691008912
U1  - 306.20944 MAR 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Princeton, N.J. 
PB  - : Princeton University Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
N1  - 	pt. 1. The Institutional Crisis of the Old Regime. Ch. 1. Towns and the Old Regime. Ch. 2. The New Division of the Kingdom. Ch. 3. Urban Crisis and Bourgeois Ambition --
pt. 2. The Rhetoric and Politics of Space. Ch. 4. The Rhetoric of Contention. Ch. 5. The Politics of Parochialism. Ch. 6. Urban Rivalries and the Formation of Departments. Ch. 7. Disputes over the Seats of Departments. Ch. 8. The Struggle for Districts and Tribunals --
pt. 3. The Fate of Small Towns. Ch. 9. Judicial Reform and the Politicization of Urban Rivalries. Ch. 10. The New Urban Hierarchy. Ch. 11. The French Revolution and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century --
Conclusion --
Appendix 1: Statistical Procedures --
Appendix 2: Population Size Estimates and Institutional Characteristics of Major Towns
N2  - Outlines the intense rivalry that occurred amongst small towns in 1791 when France was restructured into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions. This consequence of the French Revolution caused members of the bourgeois leadership to boast of their own towns and denigrate others.
ER  -