Roger Magraw

France, 1800-1914

A Social History

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Produktbeschreibung

Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for profound religious disputes. Yet this period was also marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change. This new and ground-breaking history ranges widely. Alongside coverage of more 'traditional' themes of social history - class and class conflict, religion and anticlericalism, education and popular literacy - there are innovative chapters on crime and punishment, medicalisation, consumerism and gender. Incorporating much recent research, Roger Magraw draws both upon 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'. Each chapter contains a very extensive, up-to-date bibliography to direct students towards further reading. ROGER MAGRAW is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Warwick. He is the author of "France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century "(1983) and "A History of the French Working Class "(1992).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780582228160
• ISBN-10: 0582228166
• Artikelnr.: 21788114

Autorenporträt

Roger Magraw

Inhaltsangabe

General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. Maps. Introduction: writing the
social history of 19th century France. 1. Social Elites. 2. The Making of
the French Working Class. 3. The Peasantry. 4. Religion and
anti-clericalism. 5. Education and the uses of literacy. 6. Crime and
punishment. 7. The medicalisation of nineteenth-century France. 8. The
birth of a consumer society? 9. Gender. Conclusion. Appendix I: Political
Regimes, 1789-1914. Appendix II: Chronology of events, 1780-1914. Appendix
III: Glossary of Terms.