Republicanism in Nineteenth Century France - Print on Demand

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Pamela M. Pilbeam
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.1995
• EAN: 9780333566725
• ISBN: 978-0-333-56672-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 24 mm
• Series: European Studies; European Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book