The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution

by John Markoff

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One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time of the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, seigneurial rights came to be central to the very sense of the Revolution...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:027102478X

ISBN13:9780271024783

Release Date:September 1996

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:708 Pages

Weight:2.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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