Author: Ramsay, Clay
Title: The Ideology of the Great Fear: The Soissonnais in 1789
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xxxi,311 pp, Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical & Political Science,109th Series: 2.. Textual maps & tables. Top spine edge bump,minor rubbing,small chip to dustwrapper,VG. ¶ Contents: Attitudes Towards Food: Cultivation & Its Consensual Base; The Sale of Grain & the Managed Conflict Between Town & Country; Begging: The Central Channel of Noncommercial Distribution; Attitudes Towards News: The Course of the Great Fear in the Soissonnais; The Semantics of the Great Fear; Attitudes Toward Authority: The Practice of Public Order in 1789; The Art of Visiting Châteaux (Frétoy, July 17, 1789); The Rise of Revolutionary Militias; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Historical Sociology, France, Revolution, Soissons, Soissonnais, Social History, Peasant Uprisings, The Great Fear,