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Title Aller(s)-retour(s) : Nineteenth-Century France in Motion / edited by Loïc Guyon and Andrew Watts
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART III; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART IV; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous period in French history bore witness to the rise and fall of countless political movements, from revolutions and ""coups d'état"", to popular protests and the first workers' strikes. It was an age of economic movements as France embraced the new world of finance and banking, and underwent its own industrial revolution. Social mobility increased as a dyna ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Social & cultural history.
Colonialism & imperialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
French fiction
Social conditions
SUBJECT France -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051498
France -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051396
Subject France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Guyon, Loïc, 1975-
Watts, Andrew
ISBN 9781443857567
1443857564
144384764X
9781443847643