The Republican experiment, 1848-1852 / Maurice Agulhon ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Agulhon, Maurice.
1983
DC272 .A3513 1983 (Mapit)
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Title The Republican experiment, 1848-1852 / Maurice Agulhon ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Author Agulhon, Maurice.
Uniform Title 1848, ou, L'apprentissage de le République, 1848-1852. English
ISBN 0521289882 (pbk.)
9780521289887 (pbk.)
0521248299
9780521248297
2735100286 (French ; cased)
9782735100286 (French ; cased)
2735100294 (French ; pbk)
9782735100293 (French ; pbk)
Publication Details Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 1983.
Language English
Language Note Translation of: 1848 ou l'apprentissage de la République 1848-1852.
Description xiv, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number DC272 .A3513 1983
Dewey Decimal Classification 944.07
Summary Before 1848, France had been ruled by the 'July Monarchy', a liberal regime without democratic participation. After 1852, France was to be ruled by the Second Empire, an anti-liberal regime with some democratic participation. In the intervening period, the Second Republic boldly attempted to combine liberty with democracy for the first time in French history. Despite the Republic's failure of 1851-2, its aims were of great significance and marked the beginning of the modern era of republican France: the starting-point of what we nowadays consider the normal standard of politics in civilised countries. The reasons for the Republic's temporary failure are no less instructive, and in explaining them Professor Agulhon considers the problems of social conditions and the psychological 'apprenticeship' of the masses of new citizens. Thus his book has a special purpose, beyond the narrative treatment of events: to emphasise the relationship between the political history of France 1848-52 and the history of popular culture and thought.--Publisher description.
Note Translation of: 1848, ou, L'apprentissage de la République, 1848-1852.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-208) and index.
Series Cambridge history of modern France ; 2.
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Why the Republic?
A historical and political struggle
A society in crisis
Romanticism and the education of the people
A 'republican party'
The trial and failure of a kind of socialism (24 February-4 May 1848)
The change of regime
The provisional government in action
The beginnings of conflict
The re-establishment of order (May 1848-June 1849)
The Executive Commission (5 May-24 June 1848)
The Cavaignac government (24 June-20 December 1848)
The beginning of the presidency of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (20 December 1848-13 June 1849)
France faced with the great alternative: order or social democracy
Economic conditions in 1849-50
The 'Mountain'
The 'party of order'
Regional variations
Between the conservative order and the Bonapartist order (June 1849-November 1851)
Bonaparte and the bourgeois. 1: an antithesis
Bonaparte and the bourgeois. 2: equivocations
The effects of joint repression
The political turning-point of the year 1850
The rise of Bonapartism
Bonaparte's coup d'Etat and the republican resistance (2-10 December 1851)
The 'coup d'Etat' in Paris
Resistance in the provinces
Interpretations and consequences
From the coup d'Etat to the Empire (December 1851-December 1852)
The anti-republican repression
The institutions
The great economic initiatives
The return to imperial monarchy
The Republic of the 'forty-eighters'
The official Republic
The Bonapartist dictatorship.

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