Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914
Subtitle: a study in the origins of the modern French Left
By: Tony Judt
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780814743546; 9780814743553
Subjects: Politics and government; Peasants; Social change; Socialism; New Left; Rural conditions; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-362) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The Var; title: The regional setting; title: Social and economic change, 1871-1914; title: Political developments, 1871- 1914; title: The social geography of the Left; title: pt. 2. Why socialism?; title: The economic crisis; title: Provençal sociability; title: Education and an absent Church; title: Feuds and personalities; title: The "Var rouge"?; title: pt. 3. Politics and the French peasantry; title: From the Var to France; title: Politics in the countryside; title: The roots of socialism.