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The Republican experiment, 1848-1852 / Maurice Agulhon ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agulhon, Maurice.
- Series:
- Cambridge history of modern France ; 2.
- Cambridge history of modern France ; 2
- Standardized Title:
- 1848, ou, L'apprentissage de le République, 1848-1852. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--Second Republic, 1848-1852.
- France.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1983.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Why the Republic? 1
- A historical and political struggle 1
- A society in crisis 6
- Romanticism and the education of the people 9
- A 'republican party' 14
- The trial and failure of a kind of socialism (24 February-4 May 1848) 22
- The change of regime 23
- The provisional government in action 32
- The beginnings of conflict 45
- 3 The re-establishment of order (May 1848-June 1849) 49
- The Executive Commission (5 May-24 June 1848) 49
- The Cavaignac government (24 June-20 December 1848) 60
- The beginning of the presidency of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (20 December 1848-13 June 1849) 73
- 4 France faced with the great alternative: order or social democracy 81
- Economic conditions in 1849-50 82
- The 'Mountain' 85
- The 'party of order' 94
- Regional variations 105
- Between the conservative order and the Bonapartist order (June 1849-November 1851) 117
- Bonaparte and the bourgeois. 1: an antithesis 117
- Bonaparte and the bourgeois. 2: equivocations 118
- The effects of joint repression 119
- The political turning-point of the year 1850 124
- The rise of Bonapartism 130
- Bonaparte's coup d'Etat and the republican resistance (2-10 December 1851) 138
- The 'coup d'Etat' in Paris 138
- Resistance in the provinces 149
- Interpretations and consequences 160
- From the coup d'Etat to the Empire (December 1851-December 1852) 166
- The anti-republican repression 166
- The institutions 172
- The great economic initiatives 178
- The return to imperial monarchy 183
- The Republic of the 'forty-eighters' 188
- The official Republic 191
- The Bonapartist dictatorship 192
- Appendix Statistics of the repression of the insurrection of December 1851 196.
- Notes:
- Translation of: 1848, ou, L'apprentissage de la République, 1848-1852.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 204-208.
- ISBN:
- 0521248299 :
- OCLC:
- 9081106
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