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In June 1848, two irregular armies of the urban poor fought a four-day battle in the streets of Paris that decided the fate of the French Second Republic
List of contents
INTRODUCTION; PREFACE; ONE. The June Days of 1848 in Historical Perspective; The Parisian Economy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Economic Crisis and the February Revolution; Chronology of the Early Second Republic; The June Insurrection in Historical Perspective TWO. The Constitution and Composition of the Parisian Mobile Guard; From the Barricades of February to the Barricades of June; Expectations of Mobile Guard Political Orientation; Contemporary Views of Mobile Guard Composition; The Empirical Investigation of Mobile Guard; The Cohort Hypothesis; THREE. An Organizational Analysis of Mobile Guard Political Orientation; The Constitution of the Mobile Guard Officer Corps; Practical Grievances; Mobile Guard Isolation; FOUR. The Transformation of the National Workshops from Instrument of Co-optation to Insurrectionary Core; The National Workshops as a Comparative Case; The Workshops' Role in the June Insurrection; Social Composition of the National Workshops; Changing Political Orientation, February to June; FIVE. Organizational Determinants of National Workshops' Political Orientation; Practical Grievances; Coherence of the Officer Corps; The Abrupt End to Workshops Isolation; SIX. The Organizational Analysis of the June Days; Explanations from Economic Factors; Explanations from Differences in Age; The Organizational Hypothesis; Concluding Remarks; Methodological Appendix: Procedures Used to Construct the Mobile Guard Sample
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Mark Traugott
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In June 1848, two irregular armies of the urban poor fought a four-day battle in the streets of Paris that decided the fate of the French Second Republic
