Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Eugen Weber

Published by Stanford University Press 1976

Peasants into Frenchmen

The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Eugen Weber

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804766036

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France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them.

The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PART I. THE WAY THINGS WERE
1. A Country of Savages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Mad Beliefs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The King's Foot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4. Alone with One's Fellows Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5. From Justice, Lord, Deliver Us! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
6. A Wealth of Tongues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7. France, One and Indivisible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
8. The Working of the Land Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
9. Give Us This Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
10. From 'Subsistance' to 'Habitat' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
11. The Family Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
PART II. THE AGENCIES OF CHANGE
12. Roads, Roads, and Still More Roads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
13. Keeping Up with Yesterday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
14. Rus in Urbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
15. Peasants and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
16. Migration: An Industry of the Poor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
17. Migration of Another Sort: Military Service Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
18. Civilizing in Earnest: Schools and Schooling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
19. Dieu Est-il Français? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
20. The Priests and the People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
PART III. CHANGE AND ASSIMILATION
21. The Way of All Feasts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
22. Charivaris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
23. Markets and Fairs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
24. Veillées Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
25. The Oral Wisdom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
26. Fled Is That Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
27. Le Papier Qui Parle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	452
28. Wring Out the Old Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
29. Cultures and Civilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	498
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Copyright year: 1976
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 632
Keywords: History -- European

eBook

Published: June 1, 1976
ISBN: 9780804766036