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

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. This book traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization.
Print Book, English, ©1976
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., ©1976