ISBN:
9780691230887
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (528 p.)
Ausgabe:
2021
DDC:
306.2/0944/09033
Schlagwort(e):
Central-local government relations History
;
Cities and towns History
;
Political culture History
;
HISTORY / Europe / France
;
Basques
;
Committee of Public Safety
;
Estatcs-General
;
Girondins
;
Hugueny, François
;
Jacobinism
;
July Monarchy
;
Kennedy, David
;
Legislative Assembly
;
Mediterranean area
;
Napoleon Bonaparte
;
administrative costs
;
archbishoprics
;
arrondissement councils
;
artisans
;
bankers
;
bourgeoisie
;
bourgs
;
cantonal municipalities
;
cantons
;
capitalism
;
central places
;
civil litigation
;
clergy
;
colleges
;
convents
;
departmental councils
;
departmental tribunals
;
economic development
;
electoral constituencies
;
fairs
;
federalist revolts
;
fiscal crisis
;
forests
;
functionaries
;
gouvernements
;
grands bailliages
;
industrial regions
;
industrialization
;
landowners
;
lawyers
;
lobbyists
;
magistrates
;
migration
;
municipalities
;
national guard
;
parlements
;
patriotic gifts
;
political culture
;
politicization
;
provincial assemblies
;
regional space
Kurzfassung:
The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted Margadant tells a lively story of the process of politicization: magistrates, lawyers, merchants, and other townspeople who petitioned the National Assembly not only boasted of their own communities and denigrated rival towns, but also adopted revolutionary slogans and disseminated new political ideas and practices throughout the countryside. The history of this movement offers a unique vantage point for analyzing the regional context of town life and the political dynamics of bourgeois leadership during the French Revolution. Margadant explores the institutional crisis of the old regime that brought about the reordering, considers the rhetoric and politics of space in the first year of the Revolution, and examines the fate of small towns whose districts and law courts were suppressed. Combining descriptive narrative with statistical analysis and computer mapping, he reveals the important consequences of the new hierarchy for the urban development of France in the post-Revolutionary era.
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
DOI:
10.1515/9780691230887
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691230887
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691230887
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