The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846-1852

di Peter McPhee (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 1992

Peter McPhee has written the first full scholarly study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1848-1852). The Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent regime changed the face of mass politics in France; unprecedented numbers of French men and women participated in legal and illegal forms of political activity during a period of protracted crisis ultimately resolved by a military coup d'état. In exploring the neglected history of rural France in this period, the book draws on hundreds of regional studies to examine the large-scale political mobilizations of right and left in the countryside, and offers a new synthesis and interpretation of these years. Dr McPhee shows that rural politics were both more complex and more threatening to urban élites than has been generally recognized, and provides a lucid and scholarly analysis of a turbulent period in modern French history and its long-term social and political consequences.

• Autore: Peter McPhee
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 1992
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 223 x 144 mm
• Peso: 550 gr.
• EAN: 9780198202257

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