The Politics of Rural Life

Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846-1852

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

AvPeter McPhee,University of Melbourne) McPhee, Peter (Professor of History, Professor of History,Peter Mcphee

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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'état.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 élites 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-05-28
Mått144 x 223 x 24 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198202257

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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.

`Frequently one reads books with one good idea in them: it is rare to find a work with three. Peter McPhee's The Politics of Rural Life is just such a book ... It would be an understatement to say that this is an ambitious work. Despite the complexity of the subject matter and the intricacy of the debates which surround the issues, McPhee's book is both accessible and coherent ... `The Political Geography of France', which includes McPhee's eloquent plea for a new historiographical approach to rural society. All historians, and anyone interested in the development of french political life, would benefit from reading this chapter alone ... The Politics of Rural Life seems set to become a standard work on this complex topic.Modern and Contemporary France 1993