Gail Bossenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 281475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Bossenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Bossenga |
| SIGNATURE | BOSSENGA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From “Nothing” to “Something”: Dignity and the Revolutionary Transformation of the Third Estate in 1789
The Nobility’s Demise: Institutions, Status, and the Role of the State
Drawing on institutional studies of the nobility, this comment argues that understanding status as a type of social power is critical to exploring the abrupt fall of the nobility in 1789. The Bourbon state’s manipulation of status both supported and weakened the nobility in important ways. On the one hand, the sale of ennobling offices, the favored position of nobles at the royal court, and the nobility’s ties to high finance created powerful tie…
The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on Bread, Politics and Political Economy Forty Years Later
In his landmark study, Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Age of Louis XV (The Hague, 1976), Kaplan argued that in the 1760s, the French government unleashed the first great experiment in economic liberalism by dismantling regulations governing grain supply. The policy, predicated upon a faith in self-regulating markets to achieve lower prices and a more plentiful distribution of goods, unleashed a crisis with profound political, econom…
Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789
Journal Article Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789. Get access Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2012. Pp. xviii, 537. $105.00. Gail Bossenga Gail Bossenga Elizabethtown College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
Origins of the French Revolution
There is at present no comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the French Revolution. Because of the fragmented state of the argument, this article explores several perspectives that have influenced research on the Revolution's origins including Alexis de Tocqueville's view of the state; research on the politics of the court at Versailles and the parlements; fiscal origins by institutional economic historians; and cultural approaches, incl…
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy . Gilles Lipovetsky , Catherine Porter , Richard Sennett , Thomas Pavel , Mark Lilla The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the "Ancient Régime"…
Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution . Ted W. Margadant
Reshaping France: Town, Country, and Region during the French Revolution. Alan Forrest , Peter Jones
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille
The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille
This study analyzes the political and fiscal origins of the French Revolution by looking at the relationship between the royal government and privileged, corporate bodies at local level. Utilizing a neo-Tocquevillian approach, it argues that the monarchy undermined its own attempts at reform by extending central authority, while at the same time it continued to rely upon corporate structures and monopolies to finance the state. The unresolvable, …
The politics of privilege: Old regime and revolution in Lille
Protecting Merchants: Guilds and Commercial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
To think of the word guild is almost always to conjure up an image of artisans engaged in small-scale, highly regulated production for local markets. Frequently labeled precapitalist and anti-entrepreneurial, these institutions are indicted for fostering high labor costs, impeding technical innovation, and thwarting capital accumulation.' Because guilds placed a corporate straitjacket over the economy, capitalism, it is argued, could develop only…
La Révolution française et les corporations: Trois Exemples Lillois
Bien que l'abolition des corporations en 1791 ait été une conséquence importante de la Révolution française, peu de recherches ont été entreprises pour tenter de savoir qui avait tiré parti de cette mesure et qui en avait souffert. L'opinion la plus commune, si courante que les historiens n'ont pas jugé bon de l'examiner de façon plus approfondie, est que le maître artisan fut la victime de cette législation tandis que la bourgeoisie montante en …
Le Pouvoir municipal à Angers de 1657 à 1789. Jacques Maillard
From Corps to Citizenship: The Bureaux des Finances before the French Revolution
Protecting Merchants: Guilds and Commercial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
To think of the word guild is almost always to conjure up an image of artisans engaged in small-scale, highly regulated production for local markets. Frequently labeled precapitalist and anti-entrepreneurial, these institutions are indicted for fostering high labor costs, impeding technical innovation, and thwarting capital accumulation.' Because guilds placed a corporate straitjacket over the economy, capitalism, it is argued, could develop only…
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
The Nobility’s Demise: Institutions, Status, and the Role of the State
Drawing on institutional studies of the nobility, this comment argues that understanding status as a type of social power is critical to exploring the abrupt fall of the nobility in 1789. The Bourbon state’s manipulation of status both supported and weakened the nobility in important ways. On the one hand, the sale of ennobling offices, the favored position of nobles at the royal court, and the nobility’s ties to high finance created powerful tie…
From Corps to Citizenship: The Bureaux des Finances before the French Revolution
From Corps to Citizenship: The Bureaux des Finances before the French Revolution
Le Pouvoir municipal à Angers de 1657 à 1789. Jacques Maillard
Protecting Merchants: Guilds and Commercial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
To think of the word guild is almost always to conjure up an image of artisans engaged in small-scale, highly regulated production for local markets. Frequently labeled precapitalist and anti-entrepreneurial, these institutions are indicted for fostering high labor costs, impeding technical innovation, and thwarting capital accumulation.' Because guilds placed a corporate straitjacket over the economy, capitalism, it is argued, could develop only…
La Révolution française et les corporations: Trois Exemples Lillois
Bien que l'abolition des corporations en 1791 ait été une conséquence importante de la Révolution française, peu de recherches ont été entreprises pour tenter de savoir qui avait tiré parti de cette mesure et qui en avait souffert. L'opinion la plus commune, si courante que les historiens n'ont pas jugé bon de l'examiner de façon plus approfondie, est que le maître artisan fut la victime de cette législation tandis que la bourgeoisie montante en …
The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille
This study analyzes the political and fiscal origins of the French Revolution by looking at the relationship between the royal government and privileged, corporate bodies at local level. Utilizing a neo-Tocquevillian approach, it argues that the monarchy undermined its own attempts at reform by extending central authority, while at the same time it continued to rely upon corporate structures and monopolies to finance the state. The unresolvable, …
The politics of privilege: Old regime and revolution in Lille
The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille
Reshaping France: Town, Country, and Region during the French Revolution. Alan Forrest , Peter Jones
Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810
Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution . Ted W. Margadant
The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy . Gilles Lipovetsky , Catherine Porter , Richard Sennett , Thomas Pavel , Mark Lilla The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the "Ancient Régime"…
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches
Origins of the French Revolution
There is at present no comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the French Revolution. Because of the fragmented state of the argument, this article explores several perspectives that have influenced research on the Revolution's origins including Alexis de Tocqueville's view of the state; research on the politics of the court at Versailles and the parlements; fiscal origins by institutional economic historians; and cultural approaches, incl…
Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789
Journal Article Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789. Get access Albert N. Hamscher. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2012. Pp. xviii, 537. $105.00. Gail Bossenga Gail Bossenga Elizabethtown College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histor…
The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on Bread, Politics and Political Economy Forty Years Later
In his landmark study, Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Age of Louis XV (The Hague, 1976), Kaplan argued that in the 1760s, the French government unleashed the first great experiment in economic liberalism by dismantling regulations governing grain supply. The policy, predicated upon a faith in self-regulating markets to achieve lower prices and a more plentiful distribution of goods, unleashed a crisis with profound political, econom…
The Nobility’s Demise: Institutions, Status, and the Role of the State
Drawing on institutional studies of the nobility, this comment argues that understanding status as a type of social power is critical to exploring the abrupt fall of the nobility in 1789. The Bourbon state’s manipulation of status both supported and weakened the nobility in important ways. On the one hand, the sale of ennobling offices, the favored position of nobles at the royal court, and the nobility’s ties to high finance created powerful tie…
From “Nothing” to “Something”: Dignity and the Revolutionary Transformation of the Third Estate in 1789
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