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Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village

Door Thomas F. Sheppard

Categorie
Europa
Boeknummer
#381429-UC18
Titel
Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village
Auteur
Sheppard, Thomas F.
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1971
ISBN10
0801811325
ISBN13
9780801811326
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original yellow cloth, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting


Originally published in 1971. In the 1970s, social historians of seventeenth-century France began examining the social changes in the ancien régime in an effort to reconstruct the events leading up to the French Revolution. Thomas Sheppard examines Lourmarin, a mainly Protestant village with a small textile industry. He seeks to answer a series of questions posed at the outset of the book: What was daily life like in an eighteenth-century French village? How was village government organized? To what extent did community leaders regulate village political life? What effect did the Revolution have on life in the village? Sheppard answers these questions with his archival work in Lourmarin. He concludes his work with an investigation of the effects of the Revolution on life in Lour
... (Lees verder)marin following 1789.
Pagina's
247
Conditie
Goed — No dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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