Tocqueville and beyond : essays on the Old Regime in honor of David D. Bien / edited by Robert M. Schwartz and Robert A. Schneider.

Other author Bien, David D.
Other author Schwartz, Robert M., 1944 June 6-
Other author Schneider, Robert Alan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
Description300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Tocqueville and the Old Regime / François Furet -- Recovering Tocqueville's social interpretation of the French Revolution: eighteenth-century France rethinks nobility / Jay M. Smith -- The illusion of "honor": nobility and monarchical construction in the eighteenth century / Ran Halévi -- Nobles, aristocrats, and the origins of the French Revolution / Rafe Blaufarb -- Reading Tocqueville: property and aristocracy in modern France / Robert Descimon -- Status, Corps, and monarchy: roots of modern citizenship in the Old Regime / Gail Bossenga -- Cross purposes: the intendant of La Rochelle and Protestant policy at the Revocation / Carolyn Chappell Lougee -- Tocqueville and rural politics in eighteenth-century France / Robert M. Schwartz -- Self-censorship and men of letters: Tocqueville's critique of the enlightenment in historical perspective / Robert A. Schneider -- Monarchical centralization and the birth of social sciences: voyagers and statisticians in search of France at the end of the eighteenth century / André Burguière -- The old regime and the Dutch Revolution / Wayne te Brake.
General noteEssays developed out of a conference held at the University of Michigan, May 21-22, 1997.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-289) and index.
LCCN 2002154939
ISBN0874138302 (alk. paper)

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