Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871

by Ronald Aminzade

Book Overview

Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, Ronald Aminzade explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities--Toulouse, Saint- tienne, and Rouen. A comparative case-study design enables the author to analyze how the complex interaction between industrialization, class relations, and party development fostered revolutionary communes in some cities but not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028710
• ISBN13: 9780691028712
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"