The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846-1852
Author:   Peter McPhee (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Melbourne)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198202257


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   28 May 1992
Format:   Hardback
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The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846-1852


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Author:   Peter McPhee (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Melbourne)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780198202257


ISBN 10:   0198202253
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   28 May 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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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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McPhee argues in a brisk and passionate narrative that whole sections of the French peasantry supported a kind of democratic socialism, which they sought to secure through insurrection in 1851 --Choice<br> McPhee writes with energy and passion. --American Historical Review<br> McPhee's important study demands that historians both reexamine some of their theoretical assumptions and ask new questions of their archival sources. --Journal of Modern History<br>


McPhee argues in a brisk and passionate narrative that whole sections of the French peasantry supported a kind of democratic socialism, which they sought to secure through insurrection in 1851 --Choice McPhee writes with energy and passion. --American Historical Review McPhee's important study demands that historians both reexamine some of their theoretical assumptions and ask new questions of their archival sources. --Journal of Modern History


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