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Author Margadant, Ted W., 1941-

Title French Peasants in Revolt : the Insurrection of 1851.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
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Summary 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 p.
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Subject Coup d'état (France : 1851)
Peasant uprisings -- France.
Peasant uprisings.
France.
France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.
Chronological Term 1851
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780691052847
ISBN 9781400820320 (electronic book)
1400820324 (electronic book)