Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814-1871

This book is a fascinating survey of nineteenth-century republicanism, the first of its kind this century. It investigates why it was that although France was one of the first countries in modern Europe to become a republic in 1792, it was nearly a hundred years before a republic was acceptable to the majority. Pamela Pilbeam suggests that republicanism was a witch''s brew of Enlightenment rationality, bloody memories and conflicting socialist expectations. The book concludes that the successful republic of 1871 used the rhetoric of democracy to conceal persistent elitism.>

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• Authors: Pilbeam, Pamela Pilbeam, Pamela (Reader in Modern Europe Pilbeam, Pamela M Pilbeam, Pamela M. Pilbeam
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.1995
• EAN: 9780333566718
• ISBN: 978-0-333-56671-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: European Studies; European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas