Jill Walshaw | A Show of Hands for the Republic | Buch | 978-1-58046-479-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 322 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

Jill Walshaw

A Show of Hands for the Republic


Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 322 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

ISBN: 978-1-58046-479-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.

In the French village of Segonzac in 1796, weaver Thomas Bordas spoke out during a municipal ceremony. Frustrated by how stifling the politics of the Revolution had become, he proposed a show of hands: who wants a republic, and who wants a king? Soon after, he was arrested and charged with attempting to reestablish the monarchy.

Drawing on archival sources ranging from village council minutes and reports of government spies to investigations into sedition and seditious speech, A Show of Hands for the Republic provides a new account of the politicization of the French peasantry from the early eighteenth century through the Revolution. Jill Maciak Walshaw demonstrates here that villagers were well-informed and outspoken on political issues. In addition, though the political authorities characterized peasants as ignorant and easily manipulated, Walshaw shows that the ruling elite also carefully monitored and suppressed their opinions, revealing a contradiction in the governing practices of the state.

By documenting the lively political forum that existed in eighteenth-century rural France, this study challenges not only the bourgeois nature of the public sphere, as defined by Jürgen Habermas, but also the notion that it was predominantly urban. A Show of Hands for the Republic presents a fresh understanding of rural political culture, one in which villagers responded to revolutionary change with their own agenda and came to play a new role on the political stage.

Jill Maciak Walshaw is assistant professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
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Jill Walshaw, Jill

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Weitere Infos & Material

Introduction
La France Profonde? News and Political Information in the Village
From Émotion Populaire to Seditious Words: Rural Protest in the Ancien Régime
Bringing Them into the Fold: The Struggle against Ignorance and Dissent in the French Revolution
"Long Live Louis XVII": The Prosecution of Seditious Speech during the French Revolution
Tricksters, Dupes, and Drunkards: Truth and Untruth in the Search for Rural Political Opinion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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