One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time 0f the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, scigncurial rights came to he central to the very sense of the Revolution. He traces the interaction of peasants and legislators, showing how they confronted, challenged, and implicitly negotiated with one another during the course 0f events.Contrary to many historians who see the source of revolutionary change in elite culture, Markoff argues that peasant insurrection was a crucial element of the transformation of France. Of particular importance to the study is Markoff's analysis of the unique cahiers de do/dances, the lists of grievances drawn up in 1789) by rural communities, urban notables, and nobles alike, These documents are invaluable for understanding the Revolution, but until the pioneering work of Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, they had not been studied systematically at the national level. In addition to an unprecedented quantitative analysis of the cabin's, Matkoff staces the ehh and flow of peasant insurrection across half a decade of revolutionary turbulence. He also offers qualitative analysis through his use of the records of the legislative debates as well as the memoirs and journals of the legislators.The Abolition of Feudalism breaks new ground in chatting patterns of grievance and revolt in one of the most important social and political upheavals in history.
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In a time when analysts of discourse have challenged the very existence of a popular revolution--much less an effective peasant bourgeois revolutionary alliance--John Markoff dares to demonstrate the power and relevance of empirically grounded social, economic, and political history. --Charles Tilly, Contemporary Sociology
The Abolition of Feudalism will become a sociological landmark. Markoff has succeeded better than any sociologist before him in showing how a myriad of particular local grievances combined in a context of elite and class conflicts and regime crises to force revolutionary action by a reluctant new regime. Reading Markoff, we can follow peasants, bourgeois, nobles, clerics, and free-floating politicians as they sought to discern the dangers and opportunities created by one another's actions. Markoff recreates the temporal and spacial contexts within which Frenchmen acted with opportunism and idealism to make a revolution, whose contexts are illuminated in this wonderful book. --Richard Lachmann, Social Forces --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Abolition of Feudalism will become a sociological landmark. Markoff has succeeded better than any sociologist before him in showing how a myriad of particular local grievances combined in a context of elite and class conflicts and regime crises to force revolutionary action by a reluctant new regime. Reading Markoff, we can follow peasants, bourgeois, nobles, clerics, and free-floating politicians as they sought to discern the dangers and opportunities created by one another's actions. Markoff recreates the temporal and spacial contexts within which Frenchmen acted with opportunism and idealism to make a revolution, whose contexts are illuminated in this wonderful book. --Richard Lachmann, Social Forces --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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John Markoff is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh.
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provincial estates, national property, general farms, nationale constituante, gendered behavior, baseline events, grande peur, agrarian revolution, Géopolitique de la Révolution, regional contrasts, antiseigneurial events, antiseigneurial actions, miscellaneous periodic dues, subsistence events, seigneurial tolls, seigneurial targets, particular seigneurial rights, religiously tinged events, seigneurial regime, subsistence disturbances, antiseigneurial movement, southwestern sharecroppers, pending indemnification, parish cahiers, noble cahiers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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