“This was Labussiere’s simple but radical insight: Not only was state power resistable, it was water soluble.”
“Ben Kafka’s”:http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Ben_Kafka article on “paperwork, state power, and the French revolution”:http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/rep.2007.98.1.1 is really oodles of fun.