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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) |
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Peasant uprisings -- France.
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Peasant uprisings. |
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France. |
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France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.
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Chronological Term |
1851 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: 9780691052847 |
ISBN |
9781400820320 (electronic book) |
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1400820324 (electronic book) |
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