Anthony Crubaugh is a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University. His articles have appeared in Journal of Social History and A Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era, edited by C. MacKay.
“This is a thoroughly engaging and undoubtedly important book whose
lucidity disguises a wealth of demanding research.One of the great
virtues of this book is its succinctness: Crubaugh writes with
economy and clarity and uses nicely posed questions to guide the
reader through the stages of his argument.”—Peter McPhee H-France
Book Reviews
“In a well-conceived and well-executed study, Crubaugh compares the
seigneurial regime with its analogue established by the National
Assembly, the justice of the peace, with a focus that is useful on
two accounts. It offers a direct comparison of the administration
of justice between the Old Regmine and the revolution and it does
so in a rural setting: Aunis and Saintonge, which became the
Department of Charente-Maritime.This book is a useful addition to
the literature on law and society in southwestern France.”—Michael
P. Fitzsimmons American Historical Review
“Anthony Crubaugh has produced an interesting and significant
contribution to French rural history during both the Old Regime and
the revolution. His subject, based on the archives of the
Charente-Maritime, is an interesting comparison of seigneurial and
revolutionary tribunals of justice and their effects on the local
community.”—David Hudson History: Reviews of New Books
“[Crubaugh’s] original and highly readable volume, quarried from a
mass of often unrewarding material, demonstrates superbly how a
local study can illuminate larger issues.”—Malcolm Crook Modern and
Contemporary France
“This is a timely and valuable study of the workings of local
justice during the French Revolution that examines the institution
of the justice and peace, introduced in 1790 as part of a package
of reforms, in the light of the revolutionaries’ avowed aim to
bring justice to the people and to create a new civic order that
would stretch into the smallest village in the land.”—Alan Forrest
Journal of Modern History
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