This is a comprehensive history of voting in France, which offers original insights into all aspects of electoral activity that today involve most adults across the world.
This study examines the balance that was struck between democracy and authority, between hierarchy and equality, in short between the old order and the new in early-19th-century France. It seeks to give careful attention to the Napoleonic episode from a political perspective.
This is the first book in the English language to explore the vital but neglected issue of elections in the French Revolution. Based on extensive research in different regions of France, it is the only general survey to examine the full range of local and national contests, from the Estates General of 1789 to the advent of Napoleon a decade later.
This study examines the balance that was struck between democracy and authority, between hierarchy and equality, in short between the old order and the new in early-19th-century France. It seeks to give careful attention to the Napoleonic episode from a political perspective.
In this volume, one of the first to look at 'Revolutionary France' as a whole, a team of leading international historians explore the major issues of politics and society, culture, economics, and overseas expansion during this vital period of French history.