Contexts and Forms of Rural Revolt

Abstract

The varied forms and targets of rural insurrection are the subjects of an extensive literature. The diverse modes of peasant mobilization at the beginning of the French Revolution provide a setting for the examination of hypotheses concerning the social conditions that generate specific types of social conflict. A logistic regression analysis reveals the varying contexts in which rural mobilization took on its many forms; but economic integration into the market appears to have contributed to all forms of conflict.