Peasantry and Society in France since 1789

Name: Peasantry and Society in France since 1789
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ISBN: 9780521395779

ISBN-10: 0521395771

ISBN-13: 9780521395779

Edition: 1991

Authors: Annie Moulin, Mark C. Cleary, M. F. Cleary

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This book provides a lucid introductory overview of the principal problems and changes that have affected the French peasantry since 1789. Dr. Moulin examines the social, economic, and cultural evolution of the peasantry as a subsistence economy that has been replaced by commercialized, capitalist farming, and looks at the political consequences of the dramatic relative decline in the numerical importance of the French rural sector. Regional variations are discussed, and the impact of changes in education, diet, and housing analyzed in a lucid account, translated by anglophone experts on the subject, that should readily establish itself as the principal text on the subject. Useful student…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/24/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Outline chronology


Introduction



From the ancien rFgime to the Restoration 1789-1815



A slow transformation: 1815-1870



The difficult years: 1870-1914



Towards a separate world: 1914-1950



A spectacular transformation: 1950 to the present


Notes


Conclusion


Bibliography


Guide to further reading in English


Index