Name: Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
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Author: Eugen Weber
ISBN: 9780804710138

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Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eugen Weber

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

1976

Language

English

Pages

632

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.0 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN

9780804710138

ISBN13

9780804710138

Edition No.

Synopsis "Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 "

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.

Eugen Weber

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Eugen Weber (1925–2007) was an American historian of Romanian origin, specialized in contemporary French history. He studied at the University of Cambridge and the Sorbonne, and was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as dean. His pragmatic and narrative approach made him a prominent figure in studies on modernization and national identity.

Among his most recognized works is From Peasants to Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France (1870–1914) (1976), translated into Spanish in 2023, where he analyzes how rural France integrated into the modern nation. Other notable publications include Varieties of Fascism (1964), France, End of the Century (1986), and The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s (1994). His work has been fundamental in the study of the social and political history of France.

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