Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871

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Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, this title explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities - Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, and Rouen. It analyses the failed municipal revolutions of 1871 and the triumph of liberal-democratic institutions in France.

Ronald Aminzade is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism (SUNY).

Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 "This is a work of considerable insight and a major contribution to the understanding of France in the 19th century."--Choice