A Social History of France 1780-1914

by Peter McPhee

• ISBN13: 9781403937773
• ISBN10: 140393777X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2017-03-03
• Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

Summary

This volume provides an authoritative synthesis of recent work on the social history of France and is now thoroughly revised and updated to cover the 'long nineteenth century' from 1789-1914. Peter McPhee offers both a readable narrative and a distinctive, coherent argument about this century. McPhee explores themes such as peasant interaction with the environment, the changing experience of work and leisure, the nature of crime and protest, changing demographic patterns and family structure, the religious practices of workers and peasants, and the ideology and internal repercussions of colonisation.

Table of Contents

List of maps and tables

List of abbreviations

Preface to second edition

Introduction France in the 1780s

The Revolutionary and Reconstruction of French Society, 1789-92

Republicanism and Counter-Revolution, 1792-5

The Consolidation of Post-Revolutionary Society, 1795-1815

The Social Consequences of the Revolution The World of Notables and Bourgeois, 1815-45

The World of Urban Working People, 1815-45

Rural Change and Continuity, 1815-45

The Mid-Century Crisis, 1846-52

The Transformation of Urban France, 1852-80

The Peak of Rural Civilization, 1852-80

The Social History of Ideas, 1850-80: 'The Moralization of the Masses'?

The Republican Triumph and its Challenges, 1877-1914

Conclusion - plus ...a change?

Notes A Guide to Further Reading

Index

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