Children of the Revolution : the French, 1799-1914
Title:
Children of the Revolution : the French, 1799-1914
Author:
Gildea, Robert.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
xx, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : the children of the Revolution -- pt. 1: France, 1799-1870. Revolution or consensus? : French politics, 1799-1870 -- Discovering France -- A divided society -- Religion and revolution -- "Le malheur d'être femme" -- Artistic genius and bourgeois culture -- The French in a foreign mirror -- pt. 2: France, 1870-1917. War and Commune, 1870-1871 -- Consensus found : French politics, 1870-1914 -- Reconciling Paris and the provinces -- Class cohesion -- Secularization and religious revival -- Feminism and its frustrations -- Modernism and mass culture -- Rebuilding the nation -- Conclusion : 1914.
ISBN:
9780674032095
Format :
Book
