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This investigation not only revises what historians have long thought of the attitude of barristers toward the French Revolution, but also offers insights into the corporate character of Old Regime society and how the Revolution affected it. Fitzsimmons's study suggests that many propertied commoners during the Revolution were not politically engaged, that they were not necessarily associated with a party or cause simply because of their place within a set of social relationships.

Examines the debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred inside and outside the French government from 1776 to 1821.

"Although little known outside of France, the French Constitution of 1791 is the progenitor of the movement toward constitutionalism in Europe and the world. The constitution developed out of an increasing fear of royal despotism during the eighteenth century that culminated with the calling of an Estates General in 1789. The transformation of the Estates General into the National Assembly in June 1789 and the declaration by the Assembly three days later that it would not disband until it had given France a constitution ultimately led to the proclamation of the Constitution of 1791 in September 1791. The conquests of the Revolution and the Empire carried the constitutional ideal across Europe from Madrid to Warsaw. After Bonaparte's final defeat in 1815, the European powers sought to stamp out constitutionalism, but it burst forth again in the Revolutions of 1848. The Constitution of 1791, with its conferral of legal equality and civil rights on all citizens, as well as its critical role in the concept of human rights, was an exemplar in a way that its better-known contemporary, the United States Constitution, with its acceptance and institutionalization of slavery, could not be. Furthermore, the Constitution of 1791-and the French Revolution-legitimized the right to change, which has continued to inspire down to the present. To understand the Constitution of 1791 is central to an understanding of the French Revolution"--

A Place of Words examines the fifth and most controversial edition of the dictionary of the Académie Française, published in 1798 and spanning several regimes before the publication of the sixth in 1835. Full of anachronisms and appearing to slight the French Revolution, from the outset the edition received much judgement and critique. Under the Consulate, the government used it as an instrument to assert control over the language. As the first book-length study of this controversial fifth edition, A Place of Words offers insights into the Revolution and Napoleonic periods neglected in previous scholarship.

A readable 2006 synthesis of three main areas in the modern theory of stochastic processes.

'This excellent book delivers an up-to-date reading of the current literature in rural geography. It provides a commentary on the theoretical development of rural studies and is supported by apposite case studies. Rural conveys the excitement, diversity and depth of rural geography to students in a challenging but clear manner, enabling them to engage successfully with the discipline at an advanced level.'-Dr Richard Yarwood, University of Plymouth, UK.

The purpose of this book is to give a streamlined introduction to the theory of (not necessarily symmetric) Dirichlet forms on general state spaces. It includes both the analytic and the probabilistic part of the theory up to and including the construction of an associated Markov process. It is based on recent joint work of S. Albeverio and the two authors and on a one-year-course on Dirichlet forms taught by the second named author at the University of Bonn in 1990/9l. It addresses both researchers and graduate students who require a quick but complete introduction to the theory. Prerequisites are a basic course in probabil ity theory (including elementary martingale theory up to the optional sampling theorem) and a sound knowledge of measure theory (as, for example, to be found in Part I of H. Bauer [B 78]). Furthermore, an elementary course on lin ear operators on Banach and Hilbert spaces (but without spectral theory) and a course on Markov processes would be helpful though most of the material needed is included here.

Sufficient conditions are obtained for the continuity of renormalized self-intersection local times for the multiple intersections of a large class of strongly symmetric L vy processes in $R DEGREESm$, $m=1,2$. In $R DEGREES2$ these include Brownian motion and stable processes of index greater than 3/2, as well as many processes in their domains of attraction. In $R DEGREES1$ these include stable processes of index $3/4