Rafe Blaufarb (Ben Weider Eminent Scholar and Director of the Insti

The Great Demarcation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the French Revolutionaries remade the pre-1789 system of property by removing public power from the sphere of property and excising property from the realm of sovereignty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780199778799
• ISBN-10: 0199778795
• Artikelnr.: 47866908

Autorenporträt

Rafe Blaufarb is the Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair and Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit, Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835, and Inhuman TraffickThe International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History, among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on the Use of French Technical Vocabulary
* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Talking Property before 1789
* Chapter 2 Loyseau's Legacy: The Night of August 4th and the First
Abolition of Feudalism
* Chapter 3 The Death and Rebirth of the Direct Domain: The Second
Feudal Abolition
* Chapter 4 The Invention of the National Domain
* Chapter 5 Emptying the Domain: The Problem of Engagements
* Chapter 6 When the Nation Became a Lord: Feudal Dues as Biens
Nationaux
* Epilogue
* Glossary
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index