Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-02871-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, Ronald Aminzade explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities--Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, and Rouen. A comparative case-study design enables the author to analyze how the complex interaction between industrialization, class relations, and party development fostered revolutionary communes in some cities but not others. Challenging traditional theories of industrialization and revolution, Aminzade innovatively uses narratives to provide a historically grounded analysis of the failed municipal revolutions of 1871 and the triumph of liberal-democratic institutions in France.In each of these cities, distinctive patterns of capitalist industrialization and class restructuring intersected with shifting political opportunities at the national level to produce local republican parties with different ideologies, strategies, and alliances. Focusing on changing relations between republican parties and male workers, whose identities and economic standing were in transition, Aminzade examines struggles within local parties among liberal, radical, and socialist republicans. The outcome of these struggles, he argues, shaped the willingness of workers to embrace the ballot box or take to the barricades.
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List of IllustrationsList of Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsCh. 1The Political Consequences of Early Industrialization3Ch. 2Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Republicanism: Organization, Ideology, and Opportunities28Ch. 3Patterns of Industrialization and Class Formation63Ch. 4Toulouse: From Liberal Republicanism to an Alliance of Radicals and Socialists105Ch. 5Saint-Etienne: The Transformation and Triumph of Radical Republicanism139Ch. 6Rouen: The Transformation of Radicalism and Triumph of Liberalism174Ch. 7Failed Revolutions: The Communes of 1870-1871209Ch. 8Conclusion: Political Change, Class Analysis, and Republicanism252Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Bibliography266Notes267Bibliography301Index317
