SOCI 330 Lecture 9: 330 Lecture 9.docx
16 Mar 2015
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A special sort of negative rule our regime preferred sterility to competition : process of centralization had started before the revolution (before napoleon, most important chapters: 8, 9, 10, chapter 8: how france had become the country where people were most like each other, starts off with the fact that the french aristocracy were doing badly in economic terms, the bourgeoisie of the towns were become richer and the aristocrats were becoming poorer. In 1789, when they had a moment of democratic opening, they didn"t seize it because they distrusted each other too much: went through the pattern of: aristocracy liberty (early middle ages, cooperation of aristocratic parliaments to control the king) despotism aristocracy (give up liberty to the king, lost of liberty during the 100 year war period) equal social conditions despotism, compared with england, no centralization, money is always voted in parliament, control of taxation in parliament, an aristocracy in the countryside representing the people.
