Introduction: Civil Society Freemasonry The Latin Quarter Commercial Politics Jewish Republicanism Liberal Protestantism The Republic of Lawyers The New Painting Political Culture The Middle-Class Interior Conclusion: In Defense of the Republic Notes Acknowledgments Index
Philip Nord is Professor of History, Princeton University, and the author of Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment.
This first-rate book should be read by all students of the Third
French Republic as well as all serious students of modern
democratic politics. Nord has upheld his reputation in this
excellent book as one of this country's most outstanding social
historians of the politics of the Third Republic.
*History*
[A] groundbreaking and impressively researched work on the
transition to democracy in France's Third Republic.
Nord...carefully explains how and why democratic institutions took
root in France by the mid-1880s and how a democratic citizenry
arose.
*Library Journal*
This well-written book offers a convincing and original approach to
understanding the birth of democracy in nineteenth-century France;
it also makes a vital contribution to democratic transition theory
in the modern, global context.
*Journal of Interdisciplinary History*
This book is a valuable history of associative movements in France
and their role in politics, a largely uncharted area of
historiography. As a pioneer study, it concurs with the
re-evaluation and possibly the rehabilitation of the Empire--a new
tendency in French historiography.
*International Review of Social History [UK]*
Rather than viewing the Third French Republic as a failure from a
1940 perspective, Nord explores elegantly and convincingly the
dynamic roles of institutions and associations that claimed a
public sphere in the transition to a democratic Republic from the
authoritarian Second Empire...An excellent study, meticulously
researched, with supportive illustrations and rich bibliographic
footnotes. Highly recommended.
*Choice*
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