France, 1800-1914 : A Social History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (399 pages)
- Social History of Europe Series .
- Social History of Europe Series .
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 literacy -- Primary 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 -- 9. 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 -- Index.
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.
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