Urban rivalries in the French Revolution /Ted W Margadant
Material type: TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1992Description: xvi, 511 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691008912Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Political cultureDDC classification: 306.20944 MARItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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.
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