The Dissolution of Traditional Rural Culture in Nineteenth-century France
Author: Roberta Pollack Seid
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 496
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Publisher: Dissertations-G
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James R. Lehning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-28
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521467704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-11-05
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 022681534X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Author: Roger Price
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1351695096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data.
Author: Roger Price
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1000544540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1987, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France argues that the social impact of the French Revolution has been greatly exaggerated, and that in 1815 France was still predominantly a rural and pre-industrial society. The revolution introduced only very limited changes in social structures and relationships – the daily lives of ordinary people remained virtually unchanged. A much more decisive turning point in French history, the author suggests, was the period of structural change in economy and society, which began in the mid nineteenth century. The first part of the book looks at many changes in the economy and their effect on living standards and social environment. The second part identifies the social groups which make up French society and provides detailed analyses of their lifestyles and social relationships. Part Three considers the influence of such key institutions as churches, schools, and the state. Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of primary sources, this is likely to be the definitive overview of French society for many years to come and will be of interest to researchers of French history and European history.
Author: William G. Pooley
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-19
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0198847505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe. Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921). The study places the songs, stories, and everyday speech that Arnaudin collected, as well as the photographs he took, in the everyday lives of agricultural workers and artisans. It argues that the changes are were understood as a gradual revolution in bodily experiences, as men and women forged new working habits, new sexual relations, and new ways of conceiving of their own bodies. Rather than merely presenting a story of top-down reform, this is an account of the flexibility and creativity of the cultural traditions of the working population. William G. Pooley tells the story of the folklorist Arnaudin and the men and women whose cultural traditions he recorded, then uncovers the work carried out by Arnaudin to explore everyday speech about the body, stories of werewolves and shapeshifters, tales of animal cunning and exploitation, and songs about love and courtship. The volume focuses on the lives of a handful of the most talented storytellers and singers Arnaudin encountered, showing how their cultural choices reflect wider patterns of behaviour in the region, and across rural Europe.
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1988-06
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0814778771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its founding twenty years ago the Journal of Social History has made substantial contributions to altering the way American historians look at and interpret their subject. It has served as a central outlet for new and exciting scholarship in social history, particularly European and American history but also Asian and Latin American as well. Under the editorship of Peter N. Stearns, the journal has published innovative work by many major American historians. Expanding the Past commemorates and highlights the achievements of the journal by republishing a selection of the most excellent articles that have appeared in the journal and that especially illustrate key features and trends in social history. These important essays cover issues such as illiteracy, work and gender roles, the police, kleptomania, immigration, and domesticity. Topics such as the history of old age, the social history of women, and working class history are explored. The volume reveals how historians define and deal with the most recent phenomena such as disease symptoms, the integration of subject matter to conventional issues like politics, and an enlargement of the past to embrace new elements. This book is an introduction to looking at the characteristic topics, methods, and particular insights of social history. Collectively, the essays represent some of the most vigorous and important work in this dynamic field of American historical research. They serve as an ideal vehicle for those readers who wish to further their understanding of this distinct approach to the past.
Author: American Historical Association
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean-Philippe Mathy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781452905198
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