French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851Princeton University Press, 3 sept. 2012 - 408 pages The triumphant rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte over his Republican opponents has been the central theme of most narrative accounts of mid-nineteenth-century France, while resistance to the coup d'état generally has been neglected. By placing the insurrection of December 1851 in a broad perspective of socioeconomic and political development, Ted Margadant displays its full significance as a turning point in modern French history. He argues that, as the first expression of a new form of political participation on the part of the peasants, resistance to the coup was of greater importance than previously supposed. Furthermore, it provides and appropriate testing ground for more general theories of peasant movements and popular revolts. |
Table des matières
1 The Regional Structure of Revolt | 3 |
2 The Economic Foundations of Peasant Mobilization | 40 |
3 The Social Geography of Revolt | 61 |
4 Agrarian Depression and the Social Bases of Insurgency | 79 |
5 Political Modernization and Insurgency | 104 |
6 Building Underground | 121 |
7 Sources of Montagnard Solidarity | 138 |
8 The Peoples Leadership | 162 |
9 Patterns of Repression | 187 |
10 The Dynamics of Armed Mobilizations | 228 |
11 Collective Violence | 265 |
12 The Triumph of Counterrevolution | 302 |
Conclusion | 336 |
Bibliography | 345 |
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