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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Eugen Joseph, 1925-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1976
Stanford, Calif. : c1976, 1979 printing
Subjects:
Table of 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