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The Republican Moment - Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Republican Moment - Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback, New Ed)
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France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic
activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar
developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated
in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord
asks, did France effect a successful transition from
Louis-Napoleon's authoritarian Second Empire to a functioning
republic based on universal suffrage and governed by middle-class
parliamentarians? How did French civic activism take this
democratic turn? Nord provides the answers in a multidimensional
narrative that encompasses not only history and politics but also
religion, philosophy, art, literature, and gender. He traces the
advance of democratic sentiment and the consolidation of political
dissent at its strategic institutional sites: the lodges of
Freemasonry, the University, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the
Protestant and Jewish consistories, the Paris bar, and the arts. It
was the particular character and unfolding of these struggles, Nord
demonstrates, that made an awakening middle class receptive to
democratic politics. The new republican elite was armed with a
specific vision that rallied rural France--a vision of solidarity
and civic-mindedness, of moral improvement, and of a socioeconomic
order anchored in family enterprise. Nord's trenchant analysis
explains how and why the Third Republic (1870-1940) endured longer
than any other regime since the 1789 revolution. The convergence of
republican currents at midcentury bequeathed to the French nation a
mature civil society, a political elite highly trained in the arts
of democratic politics, and an agenda that encompassed not only
constitutional reform but also a reformation of private life and
public culture.
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