The Abolition of Feudalism
published by Pennsylvania State University Press
Winner of: The David Pinkney Prize in French history of the Society for
French Historical Studies
Co-Winner of: The Alan Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Association
Winner of: The Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American
Sociological Association
In 1789 and beyond, the people of the French countryside organized thousands of attacks on the rights that France's rural lords had held for centuries. The new revolutionary legislatures issued a large number of new laws reorganizing social relations in the French countryside. This book shows how the actions of insurrectionary villagers and the edicts of revolutionary legislators constituted a dialogue in which each responded to the other, and together, remade rural France.