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To be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic
James R. Lehning
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Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republicanism and a regime remembered primarily for chronic instability and spectacular scandal. From its founding in the wake of France's humiliation at the hands of Prussia to its collapse in the face of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the Third Republic struggled to consolidate the often contradictory impulses of the French revolutionary tradition into a set of stable democratic institutions. To Be a Citizen is not an institutional history of the regime, but an exploration of the ... Read more
France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republicanism and a regime remembered primarily for chronic instability and spectacular scandal. From its founding in the wake of France's humiliation at the hands of Prussia to its collapse in the face of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the Third Republic struggled to consolidate the often contradictory impulses of the French revolutionary tradition into a set of stable democratic institutions. To Be a Citizen is not an institutional history of the regime, but an exploration of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801438882
SKU
V9780801438882
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About James R. Lehning
James R. Lehning is Professor of History at the University of Utah. He is the author of The Peasants of Marlhes and Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century and To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic, from Cornell.
Reviews for To be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic
To Be a Citizen by James Lehning is an overview of the limitations of republican political culture in the early Third French Republic, especially as it affected women, colonial subjects, immigrants, workers, and Catholics. No other book offers such breadth and depth of analysis about this period.
Raymond Jonas, University of Washington The Third Republic's civic project.... ... Read more
Raymond Jonas, University of Washington The Third Republic's civic project.... ... Read more