Making politics in the European countryside : 1780s-1930s / edited by Laurent Brassart, Corinne Marache, Juan Pan-Montojo & Leen Van Molle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brassart, Laurent, Editor.

Marache, Corinne, Editor.

Pan-Montojo, Juan, Editor.

Molle, Leen van, 1953- Editor.

Series:

CORN publication series ; 19.

CORN publication series, 1780-3225 ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Europe--History.

Rural development.

Europe--Rural conditions--History--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--Rural conditions--History--19th century.

Europe--Rural conditions--History--20th century.

Europe--Politics and government--18th century.

Europe--Politics and government--19th century.

Europe--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Rural conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

331 pages : maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022]

Summary:

"This book offers a fresh look at the so-called "politicisation" of the European countryside, from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s, in the context of waning monarchies, rising and staggering parliamentary nation states, and fascist and communist dictatorships. The concept "politicisation", however, is misleading. The book argues that Europe's rural societies were far from immobile spaces, set in routines, that had to be politised from outside and against the grain. The thirteen articles in the volume demonstrate that, instead of politicisation from scratch, political thinking and acting of country dwellers - from Scandinavia to Spain, from Moravia to France - evolved in a constant, dialectical relationship with their urban, regional and national surroundings: they reacted to wars, revolutions and shifting borders, their political loyalties changed, so did their political agendas, their repertoires of collective action and their role in the establishment, successes and failures of political parties, separate agrarian parties included."-- Provided by vendor.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The shock of wars and revolutions, 1780S-1850S

Introduction / Laurent Brassart

1. Consensus or conflict? Politics in towns and villages between the Seine and the North Sea, c. 1780-1830 / Jean-Pierre Jessenne

2. From rural homelands to national bordered lands, 1789-1815? / Maxime Kaci

3. Social inequality and the dynamics of political translocalisation: rural communities in nineteenth-century Germany / Niels Grune

4. Peasant politicians and democracy: How the peasants contributed to the democratisation of Denmark, 1788-1849 / Jesper Lundsby Skov

pt. II Shifting repertoires of collective action

Introduction / Juan Pan-Montojo

5. A war within the war: peasant attacks against the forests during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 / Alexandre Dupont

6. Punishment meted out by the community: politics and popular justice in rural Spain, 1895-1923 / Oscar Bascunan Anover

7. Electoral practices in French villages at the time of male universal suffrage: from rural collective action to individualism / Nadine Vivier

8. Collective peasant struggles under the Third Republic in France: learning and inventing new protest tactics / Edouard Lynch

pt. III Political parties in the countryside

Introduction / Leen Van Molle

9. Between the nation and self-interest: the Czech peasantry in Moravia at the daybreak of civil society, 1848-1914 / Milan Repa

10. Spanish republican discourses on the countryside, 1840-1874 / Florencia Peyrou

11. Agricultural associations and political parties in the transition to mass politics in Catalonia, 1890-1936 / Raimon Soler-Becerro

12. Agrarian politics in Sweden, c. 1850-1950 / Josefin Hagglund.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503595061

2503595065

OCLC:

1298548233