Condition Continued: The flaps are a mustard color. They look very good, with just a tiny crease or two off the top edge of the rear. They are very clean. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover.

The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1972. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Sal Alexander Westriich. Impersonally inscribed by the author on the first front end paper ( 'With great affection Sal A. Westrich' ). First Edition (NAP). 'The Johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science.'  

From the dust jacket: 'The Ormée was both a rebellion and a revolution. Its goals were to free Bordeaux of monarchial control and to destroy the power of the local oligarchy, especially that of the Parlement. The seizure of power had been effected in the name of Bordeaux's lower classes and this group was to be the principal beneficiary of the movement. Conversely, it was the rich merchants, the offices of the Parlement, and the officials of the royal fisc who were the chief victims. Dr.  Westriich describes in detail the radical transformation the Ormée produced in the political life of Bordeaux as it quickly replaced each of the organs of government with its own institutions. But the seizure of power was to be short-lived because the two main goals in the end proved incompatible. To defeat the Crown it was necessary for the  Ormée to ally itself with the Parlement, yet to defeat the Parlement, the cooperation of the Crown was needed.' Alas.