France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century / Edition 1

by Roger Magraw

Overview

In this lively and stimulating study, Roger Magraw examines how the 19th-century French bourgeoisie struggled and eventually succeeded in consolidating the gains it made in 1789. The book describes the attempts of the bourgeoisie to remold France in its own image and its strategy for overcoming the resistance from the old aristocratic and clerical elites and the popular classes. Incorporating the most recent research on religion and anticlericalism, the development of the economy, the role of women in society, and the educational system, this work is the first to draw extensively on the new social history in its interpretation of events in 19th-century France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195205039
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/13/1986
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

University of Warwick

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	11
	Foreword	13
	Introduction	17
Part 1	The France of the Notables	21
1.	The Indian Summer of the Aristocracy (1815-30)	23
I	The Survival of the Aristocracy	24
II	The Politics of Reaction (1814-30)	35
III	The Revolution of 1830	42
2.	The Triumph of the Grande Bourgeoisie? (1830-48)	51
I	The Debate on the Nature of the Orleanist Regime	51
II	Orleanism and Capitalism	55
III	Orleanist Ideology	63
IV	Orleanist Politics	68
V	Divisions Within the Elites	78
Part 2	The Challenge from Below	89
3.	The Growth of Popular Protest	91
I	The Making of the French Working Class?	91
II	The Crisis of Peasant France?	106
4.	Revolution and Reaction (1848-51)	120
I	The Elites and the Advent of the Republic	120
II	The Republic and the Workers	125
III	The Resurgence of the Right (June 1848-51)	133
IV	The Republic of the Peasants (1849-51)	141
Part 3	An Authoritarian Interlude (1848-71)	157
5.	Bonapartism - a Modernizing Dictatorship?	159
I	The Political Economy of Bonapartism	159
II	The Bonapartist State and the Elites	164
III	The Nature and Limits of Bonapartist Populism	174
IV	Decline and Fall (1868-70)	187
V	The Paris Commune - a Socialist Revolution?	197
Part 4	The Bourgeois Republic (1871-1914)	207
6.	Republican France	209
I	The Making of the Conservative Republic (1871-98)	209
II	Capitalist Development and the French Bourgeoisie (1870-1914)	225
III	Economics and Empire?	234
IV	The Radical Republic? (1898-1914)	245
7.	An Intransigent Right (1871-1914)	255
I	The Decline of Royalism	255
II	From Nationalism to Proto-fascism?	260
8.	Integrating the Workers?	285
I	The Workers and the Republic: Alienation or Integration?	285
II	The Search for Socialist Unity (1879-1905)	296
III	Strikers and Syndicalists	301
IV	From Socialist Unity to the Union Sacree (1905-14)	312
9.	Peasants into Frenchmen?	318
I	The 'Modernization' of Rural France?	318
II	Agricultural Development and the Great Depression	323
III	Education in the Countryside: 'Progress' or Cultural Genocide?	326
IV	Rural Anticlericalism	332
V	Class Conflict in the Countryside?	338
VI	The 'Revolte du Midi'	345
VII	The Peasantry and the Bourgeois Republic	350
	Conclusion	354
I	The Path to War	354
II	The Consolidation of Bourgeois Hegemony?	362
	Bibliography	377
	Index	399

Editorial Reviews

"A fine, thoughtful, and intellectually courageous book—bold in its interpretations and measured in its assessments."—Jane Clement Bond, Baruch College, City University of New York

"Magraw writes in a compact, clear style."—History: Review of New Books

"A successful synthesis of the historical literature that has emerged in the last 20 years."—Raymond Jonas, University of Washington

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