Jill Jill Walshaw

A Show of Hands for the Republic

Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781580464796
• ISBN-10: 1580464793
• Artikelnr.: 39306733

Autorenporträt

Jill Maciak Walshaw

Inhaltsangabe

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