The French Second Empire
Subtitle: an anatomy of political power
By: by Roger Price.
Series: New studies in European history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.; France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.; France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-497) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE THE RISE OF LOUIS-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; title: 1 President of the Republic 9; title: PART TWO STATE AND SOCIETY; title: 2 Napoleon III and the Bonapartist state 4I; title: 3 The system of government 54; title: 4 The management of elections 95; title: 5 Preserving public order 134; title: 6 Constructing moral order 17I; title: 7 Creating the conditions for prosperity 210; title: Conclusion to Part II 250; title: PART THREE THE RISE OF OPPOSITION; title: 8 The context for opposition 255; title: 9 The forms of opposition: (I) Legitimism 272; title: 10 The forms of opposition: (2) Liberalism 291; title: 11 The forms of opposition: (3) Republicans in the aftermath; title: of the coup d'etat 318; title: 12 The forms of opposition: (4) The republican revival 344; title: Conclusion to Part III 395; title: PART FOUR WAR AND REVOLUTION; title: 13 War and revolution 405.