The flour war : gender, class, and community in late Ancien Régime French society

Cynthia A. Bouton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [271]-301) And Index. Flourwar Contents List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgments Weights, Measurements, and Money Land (area) Volume Weights Money Distance Introduction Early Modern Food Riots The Context: Uneven Development Grain-Exporting Regions: Long-Term Developments Grain-Importing Regions: Long-Term Developments Accelerations and Transformations: The Last Half of the Eighteenth Century GrairvExporting Regions: Developments After MicLCentury Grain-Consuming/Importing Regions: Developments After Mid-Century Trading in Grain and Its Products in the Eighteenth-Century Paris Basin Privilege and the Paris Basin Administering Towns and Villages in the Ancien Régime The Flour War: What Happened and Who Did It Typology of the Flour War Patterns of Behavior / Theaters of Action TYPE 1 TYPE 2 TYPE 3 TYPE 4 Patterns of Participation The Role of Community in the Flour War The Nature of Community THE KING AND THE PEOPLE The Bases of Community PATRONAGE AND COMMUNITY IN 1775 COMMUNITIES OF RIOTERS IN 1775 COMMUNITIES OF DEFECTORS IN 1775 Recalling Defectors to the Community Struggles Within Communities in 1775 Food Riots and Change A Wide But Narrowing Social Base Feminized Men The Flour War in the Countryside Conclusion Appendix 1 Occupations of Arrested Rioters Appendix 2 Occupations of Riot Leaders Appendix 3 Type of Action and Occupation Bibliography UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES OF FRENCH SUBSISTENCE MOVEMENTS SECONDARY SOURCES Index Building upon French historian George Rude's pioneering work, Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War, analyzing them according to class, occupation, gender, and location.