La République en quête de citoyens
Les républicains face au bonapartisme rural (1848-1880)
First Edition
Gaboriaux's book tracks republican approaches to rural votes. She shows how Republicans themselves changed their version of the Republic to make it more attractive to peasants, so that by the 1870s they were seen as the model for the Republican citizenry. Read More
KEYWORDS: RURAL VOTE - EMPIRE - DEMOCRACY - REPUBLIC
Relations were from the beginning difficult between the French republicans and rural populations, who were little inclined to adopt the role that had been written for them.
How could the republicans annex the majority of the French people, who preferred the Empire to the Republic? Confronting the impossible, they were forced to amend their ideals and revise their positions - in effect, rallying to the cause of the peasantry so that they would in turn rally to the Republic. Instead of solidifying an ideal remaining unchanged since 1848, the regime installed during the 1870's thus emerged slowly as a result of disputes provoked by renouncements and compromises.
The book shows that the republicans thus determined their electoral strategies in terms that eerily mirror the ways that the French republican model poses difficulties today. The issue thus leans on the rural electorate, an immense majority, which the passage of universal male suffrage in 1848 made master of France's political destiny and which has, ever since, constantly reinforced its position against the republican project at the ballot box, sustaining controversies in which the Republic is still involved today.
It is this long process, often rife with conflict, of reformation and reinvention of the Republic that is analyzed here in this landmark work.
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Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses de Sciences Po
- Author
- Chloé Gaboriaux,
- Collection
- Académique
- Language
- French
- Tags
- , , Citizenship, History
- Publisher Category
- > History field > History by period
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science > Political facts
- Publisher Category
- > History field > Political Parties
- Publisher Category
- > History
- Publisher Category
- > History field
- Publisher Category
- > Politics
- BISAC Subject Heading
- POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- H Humanities
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES
- Title First Published
- 04 November 2010
- Subject Scheme Identifier Code
- Thema subject category: Politics and government
- Type of Work
- Monograph
- Includes
- Index, Bibliography
- Original Language
- English
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 04 November 2010
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7246-1179-3
- Code
- 978-2-7246-1179-3
- Weight
- 450 grams
- List Price
- 28.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
ePub
- Publication Date
- 04 November 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9782724687491
- Product Content
- Text (eye-readable)
- Code
- 9782724687491
- Technical Protection ebook
- Adobe DRM
- ONIX XML
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Contents
PRÉFACE
Sudhir Hazareesingh
REMERCIEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Les républicains face au monde rural
Le travail de l'idéologie
Les mots et les choses
Représenter les paysans
PROLOGUE
HISTOIRE D'UN RENDEZ-VOUS MANQUÉ
Du problème paysan à la question républicaine
Les tâtonnements de la République
I - LE PAYSAN, DU MODÈLE À L'ANTI-MODÈLE
Chapitre 1 / UN MODÈLE PAYSAN
Du mythe national au modèle républicain
1848 : l'avènement d'une démocratie paysanne
Chapitre 2 / L'ÉPREUVE DU VOTE RURAL
Le poids des rapports de force au début de la Seconde République
Intérêts et représentation : la reconfiguration du débat
Chapitre 3 / L'ANTI-CITOYEN
Le paradoxe du discours républicain sur les campagnes (1852-1870)
Du défi réactionnaire au défi bonapartiste
II - PAYSANS ET CITOYENS
Chapitre 4 / LA POLITISATION IMPOSSIBLE
L’aporie communale
L’abandon de la solution cantonale
Chapitre 5 / L'INCORPORATION DES PAYSANS
L’inquiétante séparation paysanne
L’incorporation politique des ruraux
Chapitre 6 / LA « RÉPUBLIQUE DES PAYSANS» DE JULES FERRY
La République à la conquête des paysans
Une révolution de pensée : l’avènement d’une citoyenneté rurale
ÉPILOGUE
HISTOIRE D'UNE RENCONTRE
La rhétorique opportuniste entre raison et passion
Le retour au mythe quarante-huitard ?
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHIE SÉLECTIVE
INDEX
Republicans, Bonapartists and Rural Voters in Nineteenth Century France
James R Lehninga
French Politics, Vo.10,1,96-104