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Title:

THE POLITICS OF RURAL LIFE
POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE 1846-1852

By:

Peter McPhee

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0198202253

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9780198202257

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 May, 1992

Pages:

320

Description:

A study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1846-1852) which draws on many regional studies to explore this neglected period. This book aims to show that rural politics were both more complex and more threatening to urban elites than has been generally recognized.

Synopsis:

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'etat. 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 elites 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.

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Clarendon Press

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