Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber

Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Eugen Weber

632 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before t...

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