Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France

Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France
Author: Philip Benedict
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134892195

The major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the Revolution are explored by six French and North American historians.

Social Change in Modern France

Social Change in Modern France
Author: Henri Mendras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1991-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521399982

Social Change in Modern France is a concise and lucid account of the profound transformations that have reshaped French society over the past thirty years. The authors show how the characteristic institutions of the Third Republic have been weakened, destroyed, or severely altered in the face of a late and rapid industrialization. The church, the army, the trade unions, the schools, even the French communist party--all have lost their capacity to excite major conflict and tension, and in their stead a series of local institutions, voluntary associations and family ties have arisen, serving as the basic network for social relations and social life. Traditional French "joie de vivre" has assumed new forms, and, the authors maintain, a very sturdy and cohesive society has arisen, based on widespread consensus.

A Social Laboratory for Modern France

A Social Laboratory for Modern France
Author: Janet Regina Horne
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822327929

DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div

Society and Culture in Early Modern France

Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1975
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804709729

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.

Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France

Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France
Author: Jonathan Dewald
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271067462

In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

Modern France

Modern France
Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195389417

The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.

Total War and Social Change

Total War and Social Change
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1988-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 134919574X

A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of major issues including the levels of economic activity, women's employment and the extent of executions of collaborators.

Young Subjects

Young Subjects
Author: Julia M. Gossard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0228006902

Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France. Through a set of regional case studies, Julia Gossard demonstrates how thousands of children and youth were engaged in the service of the state. In Lyon, charity schools cultivated children as agents of moral and social reform who carried their lessons home to their families. In Paris, orphaned and imprisoned youth trained in skilled trades or prepared for military service, while others were sent to the French colonies in North America as filles du roi and sturdy labourers. Young people from merchant families were recruited to serve as cultural brokers and translators on behalf of French commerical interests in the Ottoman Empire and Siam. In each case, Gossard considers how these youth played, negotiated, and sometimes resisted their roles, and what expressions of individual identity and agency were available to subjects under the legal control of others. As sources of labour, future taxpayers, colonial subjects, cultural mediators, and potential criminals, children and youth were objects of intense interest for civic authorities. Young Subjects refocuses our attention on these often overlooked historical subjects who helped to build France.

A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France

A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521883091

A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.

Islam and Social Change in French West Africa

Islam and Social Change in French West Africa
Author: Sean Hanretta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521899710

Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.