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France, 1800-1914 : a Social History.

Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change, class conflict and ongoing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magraw, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2014.
Colección:Social history of Europe.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction: writing the social history of nineteenth-century France; 1. Social elites; Introduction: a 'bourgeois century'?; The survival of aristocratic power?; The France of the bourgeoisie; Bibliography; 2. The making of the French working-class; Writing the social history of the French working-class; The making of the working class; Workers and the Second Republic (1848-51); Bonapartism and French labour (1851-71); Workers and the bourgeois Republic (1871-1914).
  • Conclusion: integrating the workers?Bibliography; 3. The peasantry; Introduction: peasant France; The peasantry and the French Revolution; Apogee and crisis of a peasant society? (1815-48); The politicisation of rural protest? (1846-51); Bonapartist domination and rural prosperity? (1852-75c); Peasants and the bourgeois Republic; Bibliography; 4. Religion and anti-clericalism; Introduction; A Catholic revival? (1815-75c); The clergy, popular piety and 'folk religion'; The 'feminisation' of Catholicism?; The forces of opposition; A Catholic country?; Bibliography.
  • 5. Education and the uses of literacyPrimary education; Secondary and higher education; Bibliography; 6. Crime and punishment; Introduction; Measuring criminality; Moral panics
  • myths and perceptions of crime; Discipline and punish . . .; Bibliography; 7. The medicalisation of nineteenth-century France; Introduction; The 'heroic' rise of the medical profession; Alternative narratives; Bibliography; 8. The birth of a consumer society?; Introduction; France and the consumer revolution; Consumerism, hedonism and the bourgeois culture anxieties; An alternative ethos: consumer co-operation.