Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part 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)
Part IV. Nobility and Modernity
11. Nobles as Signifiers: French Nobles and the Historians, 1820-1960 (Jonathan Dewald)
For Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index
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