Peasants into Frenchmen : the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914.

Weber, Eugen, 1925-2007

Verlag: Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976

very good dust-jacket, cover price $20.00, very good orange cloth, a few minor flecks on top foredge. WEBER, EUGEN. Peasants into Frenchmen : the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976, xv, 615pp., . CONTENTS: Country of savages -- Mad beliefs -- King's foot -- Alone with one's fellows -- From justice, Lord. deliver us! -- Wealth of tongues -- France, one and indivisible -- Working of the land -- Give us this day -- From 'substinance' to 'habitat' -- Family -- Agencies of change -- Roads, roads, and still more roads -- Keeping up with yesterday -- Rus in urbe -- Peasants and politics -- Migration: an industry of the poor -- Migration of another sort: military service -- Civilizing in earnest: schools and schooling -- Dieu est-il Francais? -- Priests and the people -- Change and assimilation -- Way of all feasts -- Charivaris -- Markets and fairs -- Veillées -- Oral wisdom -- Fled is that music -- Le papier qui parle -- Wring out the old -- Cultures and civilization -- Appendix. 9780804708982 ISBN 0804708983. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 98065

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Titel: Peasants into Frenchmen : the modernization ...
Verlag: Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag