Peasants and King in Burgundy
  Acknowledgments
  Abbreviations

 expand sectionIntroduction: The State, the Peasantry, and the Revolution
 expand sectionOne  Louis XIV Builds a Peasant Kingdom
 expand sectionTwo  A Bureaucratic State in the Making
 expand sectionThree  Village Assemblies and the General Will
 expand sectionFour  The Politics of Agriculture
 collapse sectionFive  Challenging the Seigneurie: Community and Contention on the Eve of the Revolution
 •Court Cases as Evidence of Changing Relations Between Lords and Peasants
 •Resistance Mounts: The Disputes
 •A Seigneurial Reaction in Burgundy?
 •The Misery Thesis
 •Beyond the Misery Thesis: Increasing Communal Revenues
 •The Legal Profession and the Development of a Revolutionary Discourse
 •A Disruptive Force: The Growth of the Royal Bureaucracy
 •Conclusion
 expand sectionSix  The Limits of Reform
 expand sectionSeven  Financing the French Revolution

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 expand sectionIndex
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