Acknowledgments

In the course of writing this book I have acquired many debts. Special thanks are due to Keith Baker, Robert Bates, Harold Cook, Robert Forster, Philip Hoffman, Lynn Hunt, David Lux, Samuel Popkin, Jacob Price, Sylvia Thrupp, Charles Tilly, and James Vann. Their readings and criticisms improved the manuscript immeasurably. David Bien provided direction and advice at every stage, especially when this study was taking shape as a dissertation. In France, Jean Bart, Pierre Deyon, François Furet, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, and Albert Soboul gave unstintingly of their time and expertise. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Jean Rigault and Françoise Vignier and to their staff at the Archives Départementales of the Côte-d'Or in Dijon for their assistance and cooperation. The manuscript also benefited greatly from comments by the anonymous readers of the Press and from the editing of Lydia Duncan. I thank them all.

The Fulbright-Hayes Foundation and the Department of History of the University of Michigan provided fellowships for two years (1978–1980) of research in France. The Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Department of History generously supported the three years of dissertation writing that followed. A summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984) allowed me to complete my research. The California Institute of Technology provided stimulation and the

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funds for the two invaluable years (1983–1985) during which the dissertation became a book.

Very special thanks are due to my family for patiently enduring my early enthusiasm for travel and study in Europe. And to my wife, Nancy, who made it all possible, I dedicate this book.