Peasants into Frenchmen The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Name: Peasants into Frenchmen The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
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ISBN: 9780804710138

ISBN-10: 0804710139

ISBN-13: 9780804710138

Edition: 1976

Authors: Eugen Weber

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France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them.The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 632
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Eugen Weber was Joan Palevsky Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles.



Introduction



the Way Things Were



a Country of Savages



the Mad Beliefs



the King's Foot



Alone with One's Fellows



from Justice, Lord, Deliver Us!



a Wealth of Tongues



France, One and Indivisible



the Working of the Land



Give Us This Day



from 'subsistance' to 'Habitat'



the Family



the Agencies of Change



Roads, Roads, and Still More Roads



Keeping Up with Yesterday



Rus in Urbe



Peasants and Politics



Migration: an Industry of the Poor



Migration of Another Sort: Military Service



Civilizing in Earnest: Schools and Schooling



Dieu Est-Il Franï¿½ais?



the Priests and the People



Change and Assimilation



the Way of All Feasts



Charivaris



Markets and Fairs



Veillees



the Oral Wisdom



Fled is That Music



Le Papier Qui Parle



Wring Out the Old



Cultures and Civilization


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Bibliography


Index