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University of Rochester Press A Show of Hands for the Republic: Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe)

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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. Review A Show of Hands for the Republic offers an excellent overview of French rural society and the changing dynamics between center and periphery in the eighteenth century. Walshaw's careful analysis of prosecutions for seditious speech in southwestern villages supplies fresh insights into peasant responses to the Revolution and, just as important, the state's increasing awareness of peasant agency. --Liana Vardi, professor of history, University at Buffalo, SUNY About the Author Jill Maciak Walshaw is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

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Brand: University of Rochester Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1580464793
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 May 2014
Listed Since: 25 July 2013

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