The Police And The People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820
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A landmark work in the field of French social history, The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820 chronicles the turbulent relationship between state authority and the common people of France during one of the most convulsive periods in modern history. Richard Cobb, one of the foremost British historians of Revolutionary France, argues that popular protest was not merely a backdrop to political upheaval but a defining force in its own right, shaped by hunger, fear, and the rhythms of everyday life. Drawing on vast archival research in French departmental records and police reports, the work presents a richly textured portrait of how ordinary men and women resisted, evaded, and occasionally embraced the machinery of state control from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era and into the Restoration. Written with wit and a deep empathy for its human subjects, the book illustrates how the boundaries between crime, survival, and political dissent were constantly negotiated on the streets of provincial France. It remains an essential and deeply original contribution to the study of the French Revolutionary period.
Author: Richard Cobb
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Oxford Paperbacks
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in the field of French social history, The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820 chronicles the turbulent relationship between state authority and the common people of France during one of the most convulsive periods in modern history. Richard Cobb, one of the foremost British historians of Revolutionary France, argues that popular protest was not merely a backdrop to political upheaval but a defining force in its own right, shaped by hunger, fear, and the rhythms of everyday life. Drawing on vast archival research in French departmental records and police reports, the work presents a richly textured portrait of how ordinary men and women resisted, evaded, and occasionally embraced the machinery of state control from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era and into the Restoration. Written with wit and a deep empathy for its human subjects, the book illustrates how the boundaries between crime, survival, and political dissent were constantly negotiated on the streets of provincial France. It remains an essential and deeply original contribution to the study of the French Revolutionary period.