Table of Contents

IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Democracy and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century French Political Culture3Ch. 1The Paradoxes of Bonapartist Democracy29Ch. 2Tradition and Change: Legitimist Conceptions of Decentralization96Ch. 3Between Hope and Fear: The Limits of Liberal Conceptions of Decentralization162Ch. 4The Path Between Jacobinism and Federalism: Republican Municipalism233Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Emergence of Republican Citizenship306Bibliography323Index357