Peasantry and society in France since 1789

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Peasantry and society in France since 1789

Annie Moulin ; translated from French by M.C. and M.F. Cleary

Cambridge University Press , Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1991

  • : uk
  • : uk : pbk
  • : fr

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Paysans dans la société française

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Translation of the 1988 ed., published by Editions du Seuil, under the title: Les paysans dans la société française

Bibliography: p. 223-242

Includes index

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This book examines the social, economic and cultural evolution of the peasantry in France and its place in French society since 1789. Within an overall chronological framework, Annie Moulin analyses the changes experienced by the peasantry, which as a subsistence economy has been gradually replaced by a commercial, capitalist farming system. From a position of numerical dominance in French society prior to 1789, the relative population levels of the French rural sector numbers have declined dramatically, with corresponding political implications. Cultural and social shifts in diet, housing and education have combined to vastly alter the patterns of rural life in France, and in this lucid account Annie Moulin explores the problems and tensions that have beset the peasantry since the Great Revolution. Peasantry and Society in France since 1789 is intended for a student readership, and will complement neatly successful earlier works by Pierre Goubert and Peter Jones, dealing respectively with the seventeenth-century and revolutionary peasantries. Important undergraduate aids include a chronology and bibliographies of both French and English works, and these, together with the Clearys' expert translation, should make Annie Moulin's the standard introductory account of the post-revolutionary peasantry.

Table of Contents

  • Outline chronology
  • Introduction
  • 1. From the ancien regime to the Restoration 1789-1815
  • 2. A slow transformation: 1815-1870
  • 3. The difficult years: 1870-1914
  • 4. Towards a separate world: 1914-1950
  • 5. A spectacular transformation: 1950 to the present
  • Notes
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Guide to further reading in English
  • Index.

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