Peasants into Frenchmen : The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Paperback)

from chrock

The first section of this book is a completely brilliant survey of sources showing French rural life pre-1870. The same method (endless accretion of detail, beautifully managed) didn't work quite so well for the period of change. But the whole book full of insight not only into its immediate topi...

from jsburbidge

This is a very carefully composed and meticulously researched work on the transition from the traditional to the modern way of life in rural France between the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War. France underwent this sort of transition much later than England, and the book has some parallels ...

from jsburbidge

This is a very carefully composed and meticulously researched work on the transition from the traditional to the modern way of life in rural France between the Franco-Prussian War and the Great War. France underwent this sort of transition much later than England, and the book has some parallels ...