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10%OFFJanet R. Horne - A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State - 9780822327929 - V9780822327929
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A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

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Description for A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State Paperback. Suitable for historians of Europe, sociologists, political scientists, and those interested in French social history, this book demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are relevance and how they initiated a process that assigned to welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrialising republic. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFF; JKSB; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological division, the French came to agree on the basic premises of their welfare state.
Horne explains how Musée founders believed—and convinced others to believe—that the Third Republic would carry out the social mission of the French Revolution and create a ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327929
SKU
V9780822327929
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About Janet R. Horne
Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
“[An] elegantly presented book . . . . “ - Maurice Larkin, Times Literary Supplement "This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent ... Read more

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