Fraternity among the French peasantry : sociability and voluntary associations in the Loire valley,...
Fraternity among the French peasantry : sociability and voluntary associations in the Loire valley,...
Fraternity among the French peasantry : sociability and voluntary associations in the Loire valley, 1815-1914 / Alan R.H. Baker.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N334.70944/ 1
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English
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xviii, 373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Peasants and peasantry in nineteenth-century France -- 2. The theory and practice of fraternal association in nineteenth-century France -- 3. Loir-et-Cher during the nineteenth century: period, place and people -- 4. Insurance societies -- 5. Mutual aid societies -- 6. Fire-fighting corps -- 7. A...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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The individualism of the French peasantry during the nineteenth century has frequently been asserted as one of its most striking characteristics. In this new study, based upon meticulous archival research, Alan Baker demonstrates that such a portrayal distorts the extent to which peasants both continued with traditional, and developed new, forms of...
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Fraternity among the French peasantry : sociability and voluntary associations in the Loire valley, 1815-1914 / Alan R.H. Baker.
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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 28.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-360) and index.
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N334.70944/ 1
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0521642132 (hc.)
9780521642132 (hc.)
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334.7094453
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991018347439702626
