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Fraternity among the French Peasantry Alan R. H. Baker (University of Cambridge)

Fraternity among the French Peasantry By Alan R. H. Baker (University of Cambridge)

Fraternity among the French Peasantry by Alan R. H. Baker (University of Cambridge)


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In this 1999 book, Alan Baker has put together a comprehensive study of voluntary associations in a French region in the nineteenth century. In doing so he challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists and examines the extent of their involvement in traditional, and new, forms of collective action.

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Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914 by Alan R. H. Baker (University of Cambridge)

The individualism of the French peasantry during the nineteenth century has frequently been asserted as one of its most striking characteristics. In this 1999 book, Alan Baker challenges this orthodox view and demonstrates the extent to which peasants continued with traditional, and developed new, forms of collective action. He examines representations of the peasantry and discusses the discourse of fraternity in nineteenth-century France in general before considering specifically the historical development, geographical diffusion and changing functions of fraternal voluntary associations in Loir-et-Cher between 1815 and 1914. Alan Baker focuses principally upon associations aimed at reducing risk and uncertainty and upon associations intended to provide agricultural protection. A wide range of new voluntary associations were established in Loir-et-Cher - and indeed throughout rural France - during the nineteenth century. Their historical geography throws new light upon the sociability, upon the changing mentalites, of French peasants, and upon the role of fraternal associations in their struggle for survival.

Fraternity among the French Peasantry Reviews

'Without doubt, Baker has produced path-breaking work which demonstrates how voluntary associations 'were significant in shaping new ways of thinking and living, and important in refashioning social relationships''. Hugh Cloud, Economic History Review

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Peasants and peasantry in nineteenth-century France; 2. The theory and practice of fraternal association in nineteenth-century France; 3. Loir-et-Cher during the nineteenth century: period, place and people; 4. Insurance societies; 5. Mutual aid societies; 6. Fire-fighting Corps; 7. Anti-Phylloxera syndicates; 8. Agricultural associations; 9. Synthesis: conclusions, comparisons and conjectures.

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NLS9780521602716
9780521602716
0521602718
Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914 by Alan R. H. Baker (University of Cambridge)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2004-03-18
396
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