The Politics of Resentment: Shopkeeper Protest in Nineteenth-century Paris

by Nord,Philip G.

• ISBN13: 9781412804615
• ISBN10: 1412804612
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The establishment of the Third Republic in France in the 1870s swept the nobility from power and established republican government supported by the professional classes, the peasantry, and small businessmen. Paris shopkeepers at first allied themselves with this new republican order but then broke away from it, claiming it favored the rise of large department stores that threatened their livelihood. The Politics of Resentment offers a broader interpretation of their protests within the context of general social and cultural developments, providing a colorful and convincing description and analysis of Parisian politics in this critical era.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition	xv
Acknowledgements	xxv
Bibliographical Abbreviations	xxvii
Introduction	3	(18)
I. THE ORIGINS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST
1. The Formation of the Ligue Syndicale	21	(39)
2. Grands Magasins and Small Shops	60	(40)
3. Haussmannization	100	(43)
4. The Economic Crisis of the 1880's	143	(62)
5. The Crisis of the Palais-Royal: A Local Study	205	(56)
II. THE POLITICS OF SHOPKEEPER PROTEST
6. Shopkeeper Republicanism: The Ideology of the Ligue Syndicale	261	(41)
7. The Boulangist Interlude	302	(49)
8. The Shopkeeper Movement Adrift	351	(58)
9. The Politics and Economics of Cultural Despair	409	(56)
10. Epilogue: In the Aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair	465	(13)
Conclusion	478	(19)
Bibliography	497	(22)
Index	519