PAMELA M. PILBEAM is Reader in Modern European History at Royal Holloway and Bedfore New College, University of London. She has also taught at the universsities of Toronto, York (Ontario) and in 1993, at the University of British Colombia. She is author of Middle Classes in Europe, 1789-1914; The 1830 Revolution in France, Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830 (Routledge) and is currently preparing a book on The Early Socialists and the Social Question in Nineteenth-Century France.

• IntroductionThe Republic: Idea and ImageHistorians and the RepublicThe Legacy of the First Republic and the Napoleonic EmpireConspirators and Parliamentarians: Republicans 1814-30Revolution and Popular Unrest: Republicans 1830-35The Republic Outlawed. Insurrection and Reform 1835-48Socialist Utopians and Reformers before 1848Universal Suffrage and the 'Right to Work': The Second Republic February to April 1848The June Days; Bonapartism; The Decline and Fall of the Second RepublicFrom the Silent Years to Bloody Week: Republicans 1852-71ConclusionChronological TableBiographical SketchesBibliographyIndex.

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