Based on the Lectures given during the Eurocourse on Experimental and Numerical Methods in Earthquake Engineering held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, October 7-11, 1991

Now includes greater coverage of the trans-national implications of the French Revolution and specifically to its impact on and in other empires, the Enlightenment anomaly of slavery and the slave trade, citizenship and gender, the conflict between civil and religious 'rights', and the human element in the often lethal power plays of the Revolution. Providing students with engagement with current research topics. This new edition brings the historiographical debate right up to date, providing students with all of the historical arguments in a balanced way which will allow students to draw their own conclusions. Supported by a range of compelling primary documents accompanied by analysis of the texts, this book is ideal for all undergraduate students embarking on source analysis for the first time.

Now includes greater coverage of the trans-national implications of the French Revolution and specifically to its impact on and in other empires, the Enlightenment anomaly of slavery and the slave trade, citizenship and gender, the conflict between civil and religious 'rights', and the human element in the often lethal power plays of the Revolution. Providing students with engagement with current research topics. This new edition brings the historiographical debate right up to date, providing students with all of the historical arguments in a balanced way which will allow students to draw their own conclusions. Supported by a range of compelling primary documents accompanied by analysis of the texts, this book is ideal for all undergraduate students embarking on source analysis for the first time.

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This book fills a gap in the literature on the French Revolution, and offers a synthesis which brings together the fruits of two generations' research in the field of French rural and agrarian history. The contention of Georges Lefebvre (the greatest authority on eighteenth-century rural history) that the peasantry occupied the centre-stage during the early years of the Revolution is vindicated with the support of fresh evidence culled from local and national archives, unpublished theses and little-known printed sources. Lefebvre's subsidiary argument, that peasant participation in the Revolution ran counter to its main capitalist thrust, receives a more qualified endorsement. The hook also offers a comprehensive survey of the fortunes of country dwellers from the end of the ancien regime until the advent of Napoleon. Chapters are arranged both chronologically and thematically to provide a complete history of the Revolution as experienced at 'grass-roots'.

This is a study of rural society, with particular reference to the peasantry. It focuses on an area of France which is defined as the southern Massif Central, the four departments forming the southern perimeter of the highland plateau of central France, and spans a century which marked the apogee of peasant civilisation in this region and which witnessed the revolutions of 1789 and 1848. The book adopts a broadly cultural definition of the peasantry, and offers a comprehensive account of the rhythms of rural life over some three or four generations. However, the main emphasis is on the political responses of the peasantry in an age of revolutionary experimentation with democratic institutions. As such the book is a social history of political behaviour at the grass roots.

This book fills a gap in the literature on the French Revolution, and offers a synthesis that brings together the fruits of two generations' research in the field of French rural and agrarian history. The contention of Georges Lefebvre that the peasantry occupied center stage during the early years of the Revolution is vindicated with the support of fresh evidence culled from local and national archives, unpublished theses, and little-known printed sources.