The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.
Hilton L. Root is Bers Professor of Social Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The State, the Peasantry, and the Revolution 1. Louis XIV Builds a Peasant Kingdom 2. A Bureaucratic State in the Making 3· Village Assemblies and the General Will 4· The Politics of Agriculture 5· Challenging the Seigneurie: Community and Contention on the Eve of the Revolution 6. The Limits of Reform 7· Financing the French Revolution Bibliography Index
