This collection of essays is written by Richard Cobb's friends, and is dedicated to him.
Richard Cobb is one of the most active and influential English historians of France. During a long career of research and writing, his interest has ranged from the Revolution to Vichy. He is especially renowned for his seminal work on the popular movement and on popular attitudes and preoccupations during the Revolution, as well as on its provincial history. This collection of essays is written by his friends, and is dedicated to him. The essays reflect some of the issues that have preoccupied Richard Cobb. Focused on some less familiar corners of the history of the Directory and the Consulate, it is concerned with regional and social rather than metropolitan and political history.
Table of content:
Preface; 1. Cobb and the historians Martyn Lyons; 2. The reconstruction of a church 1796-1801 Olwen Hufton; 3. Picking up the pieces: the politics and the personnel of social welfare from the Convention to the Consulate Colin Jones; 4. Conscription and crime in rural France during the directory and consulate Alan Forrest; 5. Common rights and agrarian individualism in the southern Massif Central 1750-1880 Peter Jones; 6. Themes in southern violence after 9 thermidor Colin Lucas; 7. Political brigandage and popular disaffection in the south-east of France 1795-1804 Gwynne Lewis; 8. Rhine and Loire: Napoleonic elites and social order Geoffrey Ellis; Index.
Richard Cobb is one of the most active and influential English historians of France. During a long career of research and writing, his interest has ranged from the Revolution to Vichy. He is especially renowned for his seminal work on the popular movement and on popular attitudes and preoccupations during the Revolution, as well as on its provincial history. This collection of essays is written by his friends, and is dedicated to him. The essays reflect some of the issues that have preoccupied Richard Cobb. Focused on some less familiar corners of the history of the Directory and the Consulate, it is concerned with regional and social rather than metropolitan and political history.
Table of content:
Preface; 1. Cobb and the historians Martyn Lyons; 2. The reconstruction of a church 1796-1801 Olwen Hufton; 3. Picking up the pieces: the politics and the personnel of social welfare from the Convention to the Consulate Colin Jones; 4. Conscription and crime in rural France during the directory and consulate Alan Forrest; 5. Common rights and agrarian individualism in the southern Massif Central 1750-1880 Peter Jones; 6. Themes in southern violence after 9 thermidor Colin Lucas; 7. Political brigandage and popular disaffection in the south-east of France 1795-1804 Gwynne Lewis; 8. Rhine and Loire: Napoleonic elites and social order Geoffrey Ellis; Index.