Paris, the provinces and the French Revolution
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Paris, the provinces and the French Revolution
Arnold , Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2004
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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
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- 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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