The politics of rural life : political mobilization in the French countryside, 1846-1852
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The politics of rural life : political mobilization in the French countryside, 1846-1852
Clarendon Press, 1992
Available at 17 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [277]-297
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Peter McPhee has written the first full scholarly study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1848-1852). The Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent regime changed the face of mass politics in France; unprecedented numbers of French men and women participated in legal and illegal forms of political activity during a period of protracted crisis ultimately resolved by a military coup d'etat.
In exploring the neglected history of rural France in this period, the book draws on hundreds of regional studies to examine the large-scale political mobilizations of right and left in the countryside, and offers a new synthesis and interpretation of these years. Dr McPhee shows that rural politics were both more complex and more threatening to urban elites than has been generally recognized, and provides a lucid and scholarly analysis of a turbulent period in modern French history and
its long-term social and political consequences.
Table of Contents
- The social history of politics
- rural France in the 1840s
- the crisis of the July Monarchy - 1846-1848
- the liberation of political life - February-June 1848
- the polarization of rural France - June 1848-May 1849
- the political geography of France under the Second Republic
- the battle for the countryside - May 1848-May 1850
- an undeclared civil war - May 1850-December 1851
- rural revolt and state terror
- the Second Republic in rural perspective.
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