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Article: Insurgent identities: class, community, and protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune.
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- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 253. & black and white plates, statistical and methodological appendices, bibliography, index.
Craft traditions, class consciousness, or neighbourhood ties -- which of these factors fashioned the social identity and political outlook of Parisian workers in the middle of the nineteenth century? This is the big question Roger Gould tackles in his stimulating reinterpretation of the social impact of political conflict, economic change and urban reconstruction, from the Revolution of 1848 to the Paris Commune of 1871. In other words, what shaped the social consciousness of the men and women who participated in ...