Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Rural France in the eighteenth century -- 2. The crisis of the late 'ancien re;gime' -- 3. 1789: between hope and fear -- 4. Dismantling the seigneurial regime -- 5. The land settlement: collective rights versus agrarian individualism -- 6. The administrative revolution -- 7. Terror and counter-terror -- 8. The balance-sheet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
