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Fraternity Among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815 1914

Fraternity Among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815 1914

Baker, Alan

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Book 28

French HistoryGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 0521642132
ISBN13: 9780521642132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 25 1999
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Using meticulous archival research, Alan Baker challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists and examines the extent to which they both continued with traditional forms of community action and developed new forms of collective action. More specifically, he examines the development and spread of voluntary associations in Loir-et-Cher, on the southwestern margin of the Paris Basin. He focuses on associations aimed at reducing risk and uncertainty (mainly livestock insurance associations, mutual aid societies, and volunteer fire brigades), and on associations intended to provide agricultural protection.

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