ISBN0674762711 (alk. paper)
9780674762718 (alk. paper)
EditionFirst Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Note (Content)Nord provides the answers in a multidimensional narrative that encompasses not only history and politics but also religion, philosophy, art, literature, and gender. He traces the advance of democratic sentiment and the consolidation of political dissent at its strategic institutional sites: the lodges of Freemasonry, the University, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Protestant and Jewish consistories, the Paris bar, and the arts. It was the particular character and unfolding of these struggles, Nord demonstrates, that made an awakening middle class receptive to democratic politics. The new republican elite was armed with a specific vision that rallied rural France - a vision of solidarity and civic-mindedness, of moral improvement, and of a socioeconomic order anchored in family enterprise. Nord's trenchant analysis explains how and why the Third Republic (1870-1940) endured longer than any other regime since the 1789 revolution.
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-305) and index.
Is Format OfOnline version : Nord, Philip G., 1950- Republican moment. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995