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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Peter Jones. Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760–1820. (New Studies in European History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 306. $65.00.

Peter Jones has written a pioneering comparative microhistory of six French villages from 1760 to 1820. Those villages—Neuvillier in Lorraine, Villepreux outside Versailles, Châtelaudren in Brittany, Saint-Alban in Languedoc, Allan in Provence, and Rocquelaure in Gascony—met Jones's criteria for geographical distribution, ecological and socioeconomic diversity, and adequate records (without being strikingly unrepresentative). The goal of this ambitious comparative project is to illustrate a variety of revolutionary experiences rather than to answer definitively questions about the French Revolution's impact on rural areas. Readers will encounter no grand narrative, for Jones sees the value of comparative microhistory in its capacity to offer a "better understanding of the historic reasons for difference, and sameness" (p. 4).

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