1st Edition
Citizenship and Wars France in Turmoil 1870-1871
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The early years of democracy in France were marked by a society divided by civil war, class war and violent conflict. Citizenship and Wars explores the concept of citizenship in a time of social and political upheaval, and considers what the conflict meant for citizen-soldiers, women, children and the elderly. This highly original argument based on primary research brings new life to debates... Read more
Preface 1 Introduction: citizenship, wars and revolutions 2 Total war, civil war and ‘modernity’ 3 The crisis of citizenship and la sociale 4 Municipal freedom and war 5 Religious identities and citizenship 6 The enemy within: traitors and spies, gender and age 7 The brutalisation of French politics 8 The French state in question 9 Union and unity: the Third Republic
Biography
Bertrand Taithe is Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of many publications on the cultural history of war.
