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Author Merriman, John M

Title The Red City : Limoges and the French nineteenth century / John M. Merriman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations
Contents INTRODUCTION; 1. Life in a Restoration Town; 2. The Bourgeois Revolution of 1830 and the Workers; 3. Urban Growth and Industrial Concentration: Old and New Neighborhoods in Second Empire Limoges; 4. ""La Ville rouge"": Republicanism, Socialism, and the Commune; 5. Limoges in the Belle Epoque; 6. Large-scale Industrialization and Political Organization, 1871-95; 7. ""De la gare à la conférence contradictoire"": Popular Politics and Strikes During the Socialist Municipality, 1895-1905; 8. Denouement: The Strikes of 1905; EPILOGUE : State, City, and Revolution in Modern France; NOTES
Summary A study of the impact of urbanization and large-scale industrialization on Limoges in the 19th century. Merriman confirms that the struggle between traditional and modern forces in French society and politics took place inside cities as well as between cities and the countryside
Analysis France Limoges Political events, 1800-1900
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-322)
Notes English
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Subject Industries -- France -- Limoges -- History -- 19th century
Working class -- France -- Limoges -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Industries
Politics and government
Working class
SUBJECT Limoges (France) -- Politics and government
Subject France -- Limoges
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 85002938
ISBN 1423758366
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