| Description |
xix, 292 pages : tables ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Harper torchbooks ; TB1822 |
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Harper torchbooks ; 1822.
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| Note |
Originally published as "L'Ancien Régime : la société" in 1969 by Libraire Armand Colin, Paris. |
| Bibliography |
Includes footnotes, cited documents and lists of bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index. |
| Contents |
I. Emergence and definition of the concept of the ancien régime ; The ancien régime defined by the Constituent Assembly -- The ancien régime defined by the peasants -- The ancien régime defined by the historians -- II. The demographic setting ; The biggest, densest population in Europe -- The machinery of the demographic crises -- A rooted, sedentary, stable population -- III. The economic base ; Overwhelming dominance of the agricultural economy -- Industry : in second place, but not of second-rate importance ; dominated by textiles -- Slow, inconvenient, costly transport -- A complicated, old-fashioned monetary system -- A sturdy traditional economy -- IV. The rural setting ; The 'terroir' -- The seigneury -- The parish -- The fiscal unit : 'collecte' and 'feu' -- V. The elements of rural society ; The explanatory factor : from production to rent -- Below the 'residence' threshold : the world of the vagrants -- The dependent peasants -- The independent peasants -- VI. Landed income and ground rentiers ; The principal categories of landed income -- The common features of the rentier class -- VII. The nobility : in search of a definition ; The negative elements -- The survival of the old definitions -- Elements of a definition : the nobility, a race? -- Privileges and duties of the nobility -- VIII. Types of noblemen ; Types of 'ancient' noblemen -- The 'modern' nobility -- Two problems for the nobility -- IX. The towns and urban society ; The town, definition and organization -- Urban society -- X. Bourgeois and bourgeoisies ; The contemporary view -- The twentieth-century view -- XI. Attitudes and cultures : the levels and the barriers ; The culture of the illiterates -- From literate to educated : the strata and the conflicts. |
| Summary |
"[Because] generalizations about the Ancien Régime [have grown] increasingly self-contradictory and French history increasingly incomprehensible...the appearance of Professor Goubert's "Ancien Régime", coming as it does from an author with an established reputation, marks a red-letter day; for Professor Goubert is able to show that much of the current orthodoxy is nonsense. All the old clichés, he says, must be abandoned or thought out fresh. The causes of the French Revolution, he asserts categorically, cannot be explained by the 'triumph of an unidentifiable feudal aristocracy.' At last a French professor has the courage to concede that Turgot spoke the truth when in a public debate staged for the instruction of Louis XVI he said: 'the cause of privilege is no longer the cause of the distinguished families against the third estate but the cause of the rich against the poor.'" --C. B. A. Behrens, The New York Review of Books, back cover. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- 17th century.
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France -- Civilization -- 17th century.
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France -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
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France -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
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France -- Politics and government -- 17th century.
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France -- History -- 18th century.
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France -- Civilization -- 18th century.
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France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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France -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
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France -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1799
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Cox, Steve (Translator), translator.
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| Added Title |
Ancien régime. English
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French society, 1600-1750 |
| ISBN |
0061318221 (paperback) |
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9780061318221 (paperback) |
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0061361011 (hardback) |
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9780061361012 (hardback) |
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