France 1815-1914:: The Bourgeois Century

By Roger Magraw

Book Overview

In this lively and stimulating study, Roger Magraw examines how the 19th-century French bourgeoisie struggled and eventually succeeded in consolidating the gains it made in 1789. The book describes the attempts of the bourgeoisie to remold France in its own image and its strategy for overcoming the resistance from the old aristocratic and clerical elites and the popular classes. Incorporating the most recent research on religion and anticlericalism, the development of the economy, the role of women in society, and the educational system, this work is the first to draw extensively on the new social history in its interpretation of events in 19th-century France.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195205030
• ISBN13: 9780195205039
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

It is hard to connect the discussion with the historical facts

Not a great book for a first time reader of the period. One cannot easily follow the facts and dates relative to the discussions presented in the book unless one ready knows the history or uses an alternative source to to follow the narrative (in my case I used Wikipedia). It only gets worse past 1848, when the author shows his real interest around socialism and class conflicts. From that point on the narrative becomes biased with generalist statements in favor of socialism rarely followed by factual evidence.