Paris, the provinces and the French Revolution

Author(s)

• Forrest, Alan I.

Bibliographic Information

Paris, the provinces and the French Revolution

Alan Forrest

Arnold , Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2004

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-248) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of Paris, and the mediation of different political cultures, which ensured that provincial France made a distinctive contribution to the history of the Revolutionary years.

Table of Contents

• The revolution and provincial France
• centralisation and diversity in the eighteenth century
• the provinces and the crisis of the Ancien Regime
• the
• the spread of popular revolution
• the promise of devolution
• the diffusion of revolutionary poitics
• revolutionary priorities in Paris and the provinces
• the revolt of the provinces
• Jacobinism, centralism and terror
• centre and periphery under the directory
• Paris and the provinces - the image of the other
• the Revolution and the growth of regional identity.

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• NCID: BA68602304
• ISBN:
  • 9780340564349
• LCCN: 2004301196
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London,New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 259 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DC138
  • DC22 : 944.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence
  • LCSH : France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799
  • LCSH : Political culture -- France -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Regional disparities -- France -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Regionalism -- France -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Local government -- France -- History -- 18th century