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Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism -- I. Nobility and Economy -- 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France / Michael Kwass -- 2. A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime / Gail Bossenga -- 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy / Robert M. Schwartz -- 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750/1789 / John Shovlin -- II. Nobility and Political Culture -- 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789 / Rafe Blaufarb -- 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy / Mita Choudhury -- 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy / Thomas E. Kaiser -- III. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction" -- 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l'Esprit des Lois / Johnson Kent Wright -- 9. The Making of an Aristocratic "Reactionary": The Comte d'Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility / Jay M. Smith -- 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution / Doina Pasca Harsanyi -- IV. Nobility and Modernity -- 11. Nobles as Signifiers: French Nobles and the Historians, 1820/1960 / Jonathan Dewald |
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