| Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village Contributor(s): Sheppard, Thomas F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1421434261 ISBN-13: 9781421434261 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Europe - France - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 309.144 |
| Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Lourmarin following 1789. |