By: Peter McPhee
Price: $29.95
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan: 2004
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 997514
ISBN: 0-333-99751-4
Binding: paperback
Condition: 338 pages, paperback, Palgrave Macmillan
This volume provides an authoritative synthesis of recent work on the social history of France and is now thoroughly revised and updated to cover the 'long nineteenth century' from 1789-1914. Peter McPhee offers both a readable narrative and a distinctive, coherent argument about this century. McPhee explores themes such as peasant interaction with the environment, the changing experience of work and leisure, the nature of crime and protest, changing demographic patterns and family structure, the religious practices of workers and peasants, and the ideology and internal repercussions of coloni...
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