Citizenship and Wars

by Taithe; BERTRAND

• ISBN13: 9780415239271
• ISBN10: 0415239273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The early years of democracy in France were marked by a society divided by civil war, class war and violent conflict.Citizenship and Warsexplores the concept of citizenship in a time of social and political upheaval, and considers what the conflict meant for citizen-soldiers, women, children and the elderly. This highly original argument based on primary research brings new life to debates about the making of French identity in the 19th century.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	x
List of abbreviations	xi
Introduction: citizenship, wars and revolutions	1	(20)
Citizenship	1	(4)
Historiography	5	(11)
Citizenship and wars, 1870-71	16	(5)
Total war, civil war and `modernity'	21	(17)
Total war	22	(9)
Social war	31	(4)
Modernity	35	(3)
The crisis of citizenship and la sociale	38	(21)
The National Guard, 1792 and La Marseillaise	40	(8)
Federalism and war, ligues, the Ligue du Midi and separatism	48	(5)
La sociale and the poor	53	(4)
Towards a national social compact?	57	(2)
Municipal freedom and war	59	(22)
Communes before the Commune	60	(3)
Lyons, Montpellier, Limoges and Tulle	63	(6)
The limits of decentralisation	69	(2)
Paris	71	(3)
Fault lines in French politics	74	(7)
Religious identities and citizenship	81	(23)
Religion and citizenship	82	(1)
Turcos and Orientalism at war	83	(9)
Jewishness and French identity	92	(1)
Republican religions: Protestants, Freemasons and Freethinkers	93	(4)
Uneasy Catholics and the religious divide	97	(7)
The enemy within: traitors and spies, gender and age	104	(20)
Traitors and spies: defining enemies	104	(6)
Threatening citizens: women and war	110	(7)
Odd citizens: veterans and children of the war	117	(4)
Processes of exclusion	121	(3)
The brutalisation of French politics	124	(20)
Repression, murder and politics	125	(2)
Bonapartist cannibals: Hautefaye	127	(1)
Street chaos and the murder of Arnaud	128	(7)
Institutional violence and the end of the Commune	135	(9)
The French state in question	144	(17)
The Weber hypothesis and French unity	144	(3)
Desires for centralisation	147	(4)
Frenchmen against the Commune	151	(7)
New Frenchmen?	158	(3)
Union and unity: the Third Republic	161	(13)
Overwhelming electors?	162	(2)
After the bloodbath: enemies and reconstruction	164	(6)
The long constituante: assembly politics and the making of the Third Republic	170	(4)
Appendix 1: Chronological landmarks	174	(8)
Appendix 2: Detailed breakdown of the French war effort by departments	182	(3)
Notes	185	(43)
Bibliography	228	(24)
Index	252