Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871

Ronald Aminzade

Published by Princeton University Press 1994

Ballots and Barricades

Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871

Ronald Aminzade

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691228105

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Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, Ronald Aminzade explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities--Toulouse, Saint-étienne, and Rouen. A comparative case-study design enables the author to analyze how the complex interaction between industrialization, class relations, and party development fostered revolutionary communes in some cities but not others. Challenging traditional theories of industrialization and revolution, Aminzade innovatively uses narratives to provide a historically grounded analysis of the failed municipal revolutions of 1871 and the triumph of liberal-democratic institutions in France.

In each of these cities, distinctive patterns of capitalist industrialization and class restructuring intersected with shifting political opportunities at the national level to produce local republican parties with different ideologies, strategies, and alliances. Focusing on changing relations between republican parties and male workers, whose identities and economic standing were in transition, Aminzade examines struggles within local parties among liberal, radical, and socialist republicans. The outcome of these struggles, he argues, shaped the willingness of workers to embrace the ballot box or take to the barricades.

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Ronald Aminzade is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism (SUNY).

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"This is a work of considerable insight and a major contribution to the understanding of France in the 19th century."

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994"

"Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Maps and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
PART ONE: Political Change, Early Industrialization, and French Republicanism
CHAPTER ONE The Political Consequences of Early Industrialization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER TWO Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Republicanism: Organization, Ideology, and Opportunities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
PART TWO: A Tale of Three Cities: Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, and Rouen
CHAPTER THREE Patterns of Industrialization and Class Formation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
CHAPTER FOUR Toulouse: From Liberal Republicanism to an Alliance of Radicals and Socialists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
CHAPTER FIVE Saint-Étienne: The Transformation and Triumph of Radical Republicanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER SIX Rouen: The Transformation of Radicalism and Triumph of Liberalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
CHAPTER SEVEN Failed Revolutions: The Communes of 1870-1871 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: Political Change, Class Analysis, and Republicanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317