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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457959503321

Autore

Price Roger <1944 January 7->

Titolo

People and politics in France, 1848-1870 / / Roger Price [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-15027-2

1-280-54108-3

0-511-21489-8

0-511-21668-8

0-511-21131-7

0-511-31545-7

0-511-49685-0

0-511-21308-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New studies in European history

Disciplina

944.07

Soggetti

France History Second Republic, 1848-1852

France History Second Empire, 1852-1870

France Politics and government 1848-1870

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-464) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dominant classes : the social elites -- Coming to terms with 'democracy' -- Aspiring social groups : the middle classes -- Peasants and rural society : a dominated class? -- Peasants and politics -- The formation of a working class -- The working-class challenge : socialisation and political choice.

Sommario/riassunto

This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused intense fear. In these circumstances the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Republic - and his subsequent coup d'état - were the essential features of a counter-revolutionary process which involved the creation of a system of democracy as the basis of regime



legitimacy and as a prelude to greater liberalisation. The state positively encouraged the act of voting. But what did it mean? How did people perceive politics? How did communities and groups participate in political activity? These and many other questions concern the relationships between local issues and personalities, and the national political culture, all of which impinged on communities increasingly as a result of substantial social and political change.