The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France

by Philip Nord

Book Overview

France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord asks, did France effect a successful transition from Louis-Napoleon's authoritarian Second Empire to a functioning republic based on universal suffrage and governed by middle-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067476272X
• ISBN13: 9780674762725
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"