Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Monarchy, privilege and revolution: the problem and setting
- 2 State finance and local privileges
- 3 Corps, bureaucracy and citizenship: the case of the Bureaux des Finances
- 4 The excluded nobility and political representation
- 5 A nation of equals: the demands of the Third Estate
- 6 Uses of a regulated economy: the state against itself
- 7 Corporate privilege and the bourgeoisie
- 8 The abolition of the guilds
- 9 The corporate heritage and the well-ordered state
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Monarchy, privilege and revolution: the problem and setting
- 2 State finance and local privileges
- 3 Corps, bureaucracy and citizenship: the case of the Bureaux des Finances
- 4 The excluded nobility and political representation
- 5 A nation of equals: the demands of the Third Estate
- 6 Uses of a regulated economy: the state against itself
- 7 Corporate privilege and the bourgeoisie
- 8 The abolition of the guilds
- 9 The corporate heritage and the well-ordered state
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Politics of PrivilegeOld Regime and Revolution in Lille, pp. 244 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991