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Pont-de-Montvert: Social Structure and Politics in a French Village, 1700-1914

Door Patrice L. R. Higonnet

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#381468-UC19
Titel	Pont-de-Montvert: Social Structure and Politics in a French Village, 1700-1914
Auteur	Higonnet, Patrice L. R.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1971
ISBN10	0674689607
ISBN13	9780674689602
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Pont-de-Montvert is a small and shrunken Protestant village in an isolated part of the Cévennes mountains of Southern France. In 1700, the village was a complicated world where some fifteen hundred landless peasants, yeomen peasants, artisans, bourgeois, and nobles had unequal rights, unequal responsibilities, and different perceptions of politics. Today, Pont-de-Montvert is a much smaller, classless society, where social differences have little to do with politics and are due more to personal worth than to inherited wealth or status. In the seventeenth century, both rich and poor of Pont-de-Montvert had their own politics; one century later, at the time of the French Revolution, the political differences had vanished though the social ones remained. During the nineteenth century, t... (Lees verder)he social structure was transformed, as were its connections with politics. In this book, P. L.-R. Higonnet explains these changes and describes the conditions of life for different people at different times in a village that is both a part of France and a world unto itself.
Pagina's	217
Conditie	Goed — Spine slightly browned.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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