Aller(s)-retour(s) : nineteenth-century France in motion / edited by Loïc Guyon and Andrew Watts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guyon, Loïc, editor.

Watts, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Social conditions--19th century.

France.

France--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous period in French history bore witness to the rise and fall of countless political movements, from revolutions and ""coups d'état"", to popular protests and the first workers' strikes. It was an age of economic movements as France embraced the new world of finance and banking, and underwent its own industrial revolution. Social mobility increased as a dyna...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART III; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART IV; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 1, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5756-4

OCLC:

874754656