The Flour War: Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Regime French Society

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	UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES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