The establishment of the Third Republic in France in the 1870s
swept the nobility from power and established republican government
supported by the professional classes, the peasantry, and small
businessmen. Paris shopkeepers at first allied themselves with this
new republican order but then broke away from it, claiming it
favored the rise of large department stores that threatened their
livelihood. This work offers a broader interpretation of their
protests within the context of general social and cultural
developments, providing a colorful and convincing description and
analysis of Parisian politics in this critical era of French
history. Historians' previous explanations of shopkeeper discontent
during the period have centered on the rise of the department
store. In contrast, Nord shifts the locus of interpretation to the
impact of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris and the economic
crisis of the 1880s on the Paris retail market. In addition, the
author challenges the assumption that retailers' protest translates
directly into a politics of reaction. His interpretation is an
example of social history at its best, and will appeal to those
interested in France, social movements, and nineteenth-century
Europe. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition
includes a new introduction by the author that discusses the book's
themes--politics of consumption, nationalism, anti-Semitism--in
terms of current historiographical concerns. He also examines
whether our own era is not one of political realignment with a
potential for right-wing extremism.
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