Les Soulèvements Populaires en France de 1623 à 1648. Boris Porchnev

Absolutismo: um conceito não substituído

“…27 Ela reflete o enfrentamento de duas escolas históricas sobre os conteúdos sociais do absolutismo. Para Porchnev (1963), as sublevações populares exprimem a resistência das massas a um Estado feudal-absolutista em expansão, a nobreza e a burguesia se aliando para reforçar sua dominação sobre o povo. 28 Mousnier (1951Mousnier ( -19521956;1958), por sua vez, inverte a análise e vê nos movimentos de revolta uma reação aristocrática contra o absolutismo burguês.…”

Introducing HiSCoD: A New Gateway for the Study of Historical Social Conflict

“…Since the nineteenth century, social conflict has been a major feature of social and political research. Historians and social scientists have used it to analyze a wide range of topics such as the construction of modern states (Mousnier 1958), economic crises and the politics of provisioning (Bohstedt 2010;Tilly 1975), the use and the meaning of collective violence (Tilly 2003), and the development of political consciousness (Porchnev 1963;Thompson 1971). Several large-scale projects have indexed information on conflict by time and geography during the twentieth century and their data are readily available online.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, however, no such large-scale resource has been developed for social conflict before the nineteenth century despite several historical researches. 1 The debate between Porchnev (1963) and Mousnier (1958) on the origins of rebellions during the seventeenth century, and later the groundbreaking work of Thompson (1971), generated a large number of monographs, articles and theses on disorder and revolts in Europe and elsewhere (e.g., Bercé 1974;Gailus 1990;Hobsbawm and Rudé 1968). 2 However, datasets describing these events are sparse and rarely accessible since they were generally put together before the 2000s.…”