French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

Reassessments and New Approaches

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvJay M. Smith,Jay M. (UNC-Chapel Hill) Smith

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Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France’s past.The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential “revisionist” assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret’s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret’s revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time, they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century’s narrative about eighteenth-century France?The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history.In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb, Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-10-03
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt653 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271028989

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nobility After RevisionismPart I: Nobility and Economy1.Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century FranceMichael Kwass2.A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old RegimeGail Bossenga3.The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century BurgundyRobert M. Schwartz4.Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750–1789John ShovlinPart II: Nobility and Political Culture5.Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789Rafe Blaufarb6.Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century AristocracyMita Choudhury7.Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a ConspiracyThomas E. KaiserPart III: Nobility and “Aristocratic Reaction”8.A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l’Esprit des LoisJohnson Kent Wright9.The Making of an Aristocratic “Reactionary”: The Comte d’Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility Jay M. Smith10.The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and RevolutionDoina Pasca HarsanyiPart IV: Nobility and Modernity11.Nobles as Signifiers: French Nobles and the Historians, 1820–1960Jonathan DewaldFor Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

“Smith, well known for his studies of the French nobility, presents a stimulating collection of essays originally presented at a 2002 North Carolina Humanities Center symposium.Grouped under three themes—economy, political culture, and ‘aristocratic reaction’—the essays, an exceptional blend of broad overview and detailed specialization, highlight the interrelationship of political, social, and intellectual change.”—D. C. Baxter Choice