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Author Magraw, Roger, author.

Title France, 1800-1914 : a Social History.

Publication Info. London : Routledge, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (399 pages).
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Series Social History of Europe
Social history of Europe.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction: writing the social history of nineteenth-century France; 1. Social elites; Introduction: a 'bourgeois century'?; The survival of aristocratic power?; The France of the bourgeoisie; Bibliography; 2. The making of the French working-class; Writing the social history of the French working-class; The making of the working class; Workers and the Second Republic (1848-51); Bonapartism and French labour (1851-71); Workers and the bourgeois Republic (1871-1914).
Conclusion: integrating the workers?Bibliography; 3. The peasantry; Introduction: peasant France; The peasantry and the French Revolution; Apogee and crisis of a peasant society? (1815-48); The politicisation of rural protest? (1846-51); Bonapartist domination and rural prosperity? (1852-75c); Peasants and the bourgeois Republic; Bibliography; 4. Religion and anti-clericalism; Introduction; A Catholic revival? (1815-75c); The clergy, popular piety and 'folk religion'; The 'feminisation' of Catholicism?; The forces of opposition; A Catholic country?; Bibliography.
5. Education and the uses of literacyPrimary education; Secondary and higher education; Bibliography; 6. Crime and punishment; Introduction; Measuring criminality; Moral panics -- myths and perceptions of crime; Discipline and punish . . .; Bibliography; 7. The medicalisation of nineteenth-century France; Introduction; The 'heroic' rise of the medical profession; Alternative narratives; Bibliography; 8. The birth of a consumer society?; Introduction; France and the consumer revolution; Consumerism, hedonism and the bourgeois culture anxieties; An alternative ethos: consumer co-operation.
Bibliography Bibliography9. Gender; Writing the history of (French) women; An ambivalent legacy: women, Enlightenment, French Revolution; Domesticity and its discontents; Women, work and the family; 'La femme populaire rebelle'?; Women and the labour movement 1880-1914; French feminism (s) ; A gender crisis? Male anxieties, misogyny and antifeminism in the fin-de-siècle; France, women, feminism; Postscript: from 'discourse' to representation and 'social reality'?; Bibliography; Conclusion; Appendix I: Political regimes, 1789-1914; Appendix II: Chronology of events, 1789-1914; Appendix III: Glossary of terms.
Note Includes index.
Summary Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change, class conflict and ongoing religious and cultural tensions. Incorporating much recent research, Roger Magraw draws both upon still-valuable insights derived from the 'new social history' of the 1960s and upon more recent approaches suggested by gender history, cultural anthropology and the 'linguistic turn'.
Subject France -- History -- 19th century.
France -- History -- 20th century.
France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1800 - 1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version 9780582228160
ISBN 9781317892854 (electronic bk.)
1317892852 (electronic bk.)
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