Format:
1 online resource (358 pages)
ISBN:
9780271035871
Content:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism -- I. Nobility and Economy -- 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France -- 2. Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime -- 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy -- 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750-1789 -- II. Nobility and Political Culture -- 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789 -- 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy -- 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy -- III. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction -- 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l'Esrit des Lois -- 9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d'Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility -- 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution -- IV. Nobility and Modernity -- 11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820-1960 -- For Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780271028989
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780271028989
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271035871
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271035871
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