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Article: People and Politics in France, 1848-1870.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2005
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People and Politics in France, 1848-1870. By Roger Price. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 477. $95.00.)
The author of this book comes to the task he has assigned himself here as well prepared as any contemporary historian writing in any language. He is indisputably one of the world's preeminent scholars on the social and economic history of nineteenth-century France, particularly of the period from the creation of the Second Republic in the summer and fall of 1848 through the military humiliation and collapse of the ill-fated Second Empire of Napoleon III in September 1870. As with the author's previous works, this one will be invaluable to ...
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