Second French Republic 1848-1852
Subtitle: A Political Reinterpretation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781137597397
Subjects: France, politics and government; France, history, february revolution, 1848
Description: This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France's shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy. .