Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century

by James R. Lehning

Book Overview

Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the development of the French national identity during the nineteenth century. Drawing on methods from cultural studies and social history and a broad range of literary and archival sources, Lehning argues that modern France has in part defined itself as different from the peasantry. Rather than seeing rural French history as a process in which peasants lose their identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521467705
• ISBN13: 9780521467704
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"