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Author Gemie, Sharif

Title French revolutions, 1815-1914 : an introduction
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages, map)
Contents Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of French Departments and their capitals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 1830, the Liberal Revolution -- 3. Lyon, 1831: Working-class protest -- 4. La Vendee, 1832: Monarchy and revolution -- 5. Utopian Socialism -- 6. 1848: The Republican utopia -- 7. Peasants, socialism and order: 1848-51 -- 8. Bonapartism and counter-revolution: 1851 -- 9. The commune of Paris, 1871: Socialism and Republicanism -- 10. Republicanism recreated: 1870-1900 -- 11. Political anti-semitism and the Dreyfus Affair: 1894-1906: Towards fascism -- 12. Conclusions -- Glossary of names and movements
Summary This textbook provides an ideal introduction to nineteenth-century France: a 'Century of Revolutions'. Written with the undergraduate student's needs in mind, Sharif Gemie works through the major and minor revolutions which altered the course of French history and which shaped the development of French society. Moving away from a Paris-centred view of the country, the author examines developments which unfolded across France, including studies of rural socialism in Mediterranean France, and peasant monarchism in the West. Following a broadly chronological sequence, each chapter is arranged in the same way, allowing the student to follow themes within the events. Each chapter ends with a selection of relevant contemporary documents in translation, offering the opportunity to tackle primary source material, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject areaCovers both major and minor revolutions, including the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the proto-fascism of the anti-DreyfusardsProvides primary source material at the end of each chapterOffers a comprehensive guide to further reading at the end of each chapterFollows a chronological sequence, with each chapter being arranged thematically within that sequence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Revolutions -- France -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Revolutions
Revoluties.
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051473
Subject France
Frankrijk.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585060592
9780585060590