Violent events in France, 1830-1860 and 1930-1960
By: principal investigators, Charles Tilly and Raul Zambrano
Series: ICPSR -- 9080; ICPSR (Series) -- 9080
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Riots; History; Violence; Politics and government
Description: This data collection was constructed as part of an ongoing research project aimed at examining and reformulating alternative explanations of conflict in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Information is supplied on the characteristics of each set of participants in a violent event ("formation"), including demographic, occupational, and political variables, and on the characteristics of the event as a whole. The magnitude of each disturbance is described by information on the number of participants, the number of man-days expended, and the number of participants killed, wounded, or arrested, as well as the form and extent of violence, property damage, and the immediate consequences of the violent event. Included also are descriptive data specifying the date, duration, location, and proximate causes of each event, and the major divisions separating its antagonists. In addition, the data collection identifies the sources reporting each event and cites key descriptive words used in the accounts of the incident.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1830-1860 and 1930-1960. Data collected: 1962-1988.

The data were culled from archives, newspapers, general histories, yearbooks, monographs, and other published sources.

Event/transaction data.

France.

Princeton University. Center for International Studies, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation.

LRECL data format. (1) The six files that constitute this collection comprise the components of a relational database, i.e., the information pertaining to any single event is contained in different files that share one or more common fields. (2) This collection is an extensively revised version of a recently dearchived ICPSR study: Disturbances in France, 1830-1860 and 1930-1960: general sample (ICPSR 0050).

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Description of Each Violent Event ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,266 ; variable count: 22 ; LRECL: 108 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Magnitude of Each Violent Event ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,266 ; variable count: 26 ; LRECL: 76 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Location of Each Violent Event ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,318 ; variable count: 8 ; LRECL: 56 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 4 ; part name: Description of Each Formation ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,034 ; variable count: 17 ; LRECL: 64 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 5 ; part name: Characteristics of All Formations ThatConstitute a Violent Event ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,266 ; variable count: 8 ; LRECL: 83 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 6 ; part name: Sources Used For Each Violent Event ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,266 ; variable count: 17 ; LRECL: 54 ; records per case: 1.

All events encompassed by the universe.

Universe: Violent events having at least 50 persons in one of the groups involved resulting in seizure, injury, or damage to at least one person or object that occurred in public places within continental France during the years 1830 to 1860 and 1930 to 1960. To qualify as a violent event, the person or object sustaining the attack had to be or belong to someone outside the acting group. Incidents in which troops or police inflicted the only violence are excluded.

Tilly, Charles. The contentious French. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.