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