The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic 1866–1885 - Hardcover

Auspitz, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521238617 ISBN 13: 9780521238618

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1982

Synopsis

The Radical Bourgeoisie traces the development of the political culture that sustained the Third Republic in France. It examines the centrality of education to Republican ideology and describes the political organization of the center-left alliance that coalesced in the Radical Party. Professor Auspitz challenges several widely held interpretations of modern French history and reassesses the role of French Radicals as thinkers and politicians. Against complaints of the left that they were petty bourgeois ideologues, of the right that they were dogmatic atheists, and of the center that they were small-minded and corrupt, Professor Auspitz attempts to vindicate the radicals as generous in their objectives, serious in their reflections, and effective in their strategies. The study also explains the importance of anticlericalism and of a new concern for the role of women and workers in defining an emerging secular culture.

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Book Description:

The Radical Bourgeoisie traces the development of the political culture that sustained the Third Republic in France. It examines the centrality of education to Republican ideology and describes the political organization of the center-left alliance that coalesced in the Radical Party.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0521238617
• ISBN 13: 9780521238618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246