A Social History Of France 1789 1914

Download or read book A Social History of France 1780-1880 written by Peter McPhee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first to synthesize in English the most recent research into the social history of France, from the collapse of the Ancien Regime to the consolidation of the Third Republic. By placing relations of power at the heart of his analysis, the author offers a new and coherent perspective on the relationship between political upheaval, economic change, the construction of new ideologies of gender and ethnicity, and daily life. The book offers to students a lively and clear introduction to this complex and fascinating society and provides specialists with a model for the interpretation of French social history."--pub. desc.