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Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 1st Edition

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France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them.

The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.

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0804710139
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978-0804710138
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June 1, 1976
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanford University Press; 1st edition (June 1, 1976)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 632 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804710139
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804710138
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1360L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.58 x 8.5 inches

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Simple Scholar

A Genuine Masterpiece

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Eugene Weber’s “Peasants into Frenchmen” examines the transformation of the French peasantry during the Third Republic. Challenging the notion that the French were a united people throughout the nineteenth-century, he writes “it is clear that France around 1870 did not conform to…[the] model of a nation. It was neither morally nor materially integrated” (p. 485). Weber argues persuasively that the peasantry did not nationalize until the 1880s and 1890s. Before the Third Republic, a tremendous cultural difference existed between urban dwellers and rural folk. Weber highlights these differences in three separate sections. The first part focuses on the several backwards elements of peasant culture before 1870, the second section examines the various technological, economic, and cultural agents that transformed the countryside, and the conclusion examines the decline, if not the destruction, of rural cultural peculiarities.

Weber’s book is a monumental achievement. His thesis that modernization did not occur until the late nineteenth-century and the early twentieth-century is supported by well-documented facts and almost one-hundred pages of footnotes. He uses a variety of sources, ranging from the novels of Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert to archival work. The majority of his secondary sources are in French. Despite his tremendous volume of detail, Weber’s prose is elegant, clear, and, at times, witty. He balances general facts with quirky and amusing stories. He shows that there can be a joy to studying history. Overall, the depth of Weber’s knowledge and erudition exemplifies how historical scholarship ought to be done.

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A Classic work of French history

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I first owned a copy of this book some thirty years ago. It still remains one of the best works covering the story of how the patchwork of disparate regions became the nation that we know today.

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Terri Pray

Nuts and bolts of nationalist transformation

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Nationalism as we know it was a thing of the educated classes, concentrated on national capitals and university towns. Turning the huge rural and small town supermajority into nationals instead of locals who spoke vaguely mutually intelligible local patois was the work of the second half of the 19th century. This book explains how it was done. There has been a political entity looking vaguely like modern France back to the late days of the Roman Republic yet as late as Napoleon's time, being French was mostly a construct. Yet by 1914 it was quite real.

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C Ashley

Wonderful book

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Excellent read for anyone interested in the early modern history of rural Europe or the French modern transition into a nation-state. The book is exceptional in its detail and contains incredible anecdotes that illustrate life in rural France in the 19th century and how/why it changed dramatically.

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Matthias Baudinet

A classic book!

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A classic book! A must read for all modern French or modern European history students!

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Danny Colston

Needed it for class

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I needed it for class, purchased it, it came quickly and in perfect condition. That being said, the topic is not of great interest to me, but I suppose it was interesting to many in the class.

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Eleanor J. Johnson

Masterpiece of scholarship.

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This book is everything it that deserved the French award. I understand the French language so this was not a problem for me.

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fergus

Excellent book, speedy delivery

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Peasants into Frenchmen is both an invaluable guide to nineteenth-century France and an excellent read in itself. Weber writes fluidly, with great humanity and provides great colour, bringing the past to life while providing a compelling analysis of the motors of 'modernisation'. While the term itself and parts of his argument are disputable it nonetheless is essential reading for those interested in the period, especially social, cultural and political evolution.

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