Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-464) and index.
Contents
Dominant classes : the social elites -- Coming to terms with 'democracy' -- Aspiring social groups : the middle classes -- Peasants and rural society : a dominated class? -- Peasants and politics -- The formation of a working class -- The working-class challenge : socialisation and political choice.
Summary
This book is about politicisation and political choice, in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848. The focus is on responses to the counter-revolutionary policies pursued by the imperial regime of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte following his coup d'état and on the emergence of democracy in France.
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