TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margadant,Ted W.
TI  - Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution
SN  - 9780691230887
U1  - 306.2/0944/09033 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Basques
KW  - Committee of Public Safety
KW  - Estatcs-General
KW  - Girondins
KW  - Hugueny, François
KW  - Jacobinism
KW  - July Monarchy
KW  - Kennedy, David
KW  - Legislative Assembly
KW  - Mediterranean area
KW  - Napoleon Bonaparte
KW  - administrative costs
KW  - archbishoprics
KW  - arrondissement councils
KW  - artisans
KW  - bankers
KW  - bourgeoisie
KW  - bourgs
KW  - cantonal municipalities
KW  - cantons
KW  - capitalism
KW  - central places
KW  - civil litigation
KW  - clergy
KW  - colleges
KW  - convents
KW  - departmental councils
KW  - departmental tribunals
KW  - economic development
KW  - electoral constituencies
KW  - fairs
KW  - federalist revolts
KW  - fiscal crisis
KW  - forests
KW  - functionaries
KW  - gouvernements
KW  - grands bailliages
KW  - industrial regions
KW  - industrialization
KW  - landowners
KW  - lawyers
KW  - lobbyists
KW  - magistrates
KW  - migration
KW  - municipalities
KW  - national guard
KW  - parlements
KW  - patriotic gifts
KW  - political culture
KW  - politicization
KW  - provincial assemblies
KW  - regional space
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF MAPS --; LIST OF TABLES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE: THE INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF THE OLD REGIME --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Towns and the Old Regime --; CHAPTER 2 The New Division of the Kingdom --; CHAPTER 3 Urban Crisis and Bourgeois Ambition --; PART TWO: THE RHETORIC AND POLITICS OF SPACE --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 4 The Rhetoric of Contention --; CHAPTER 5 The Politics of Parochialism --; CHAPTER 6 Urban Rivalries and the Formation of Departments --; CHAPTER 7 Disputes over the Seats of Departments --; CHAPTER 8 The Struggle for Districts and Tribunals --; PART THREE: THE FATE OF SMALL TOWNS --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 9 Judicial Reform and the Politicization of Urban Rivalries --; CHAPTER 10 The New Urban Hierarchy --; CHAPTER 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 --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF PLACE NAMES --; GENERAL INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
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