Insurgent Identities – Class, Community, & Protest in Paris From 1848 to the Commune - Hardcover

Gould, Roger V

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226305600 ISBN 13: 9780226305608

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

By focusing on the less turbulent years in between the social upheavals of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1848 Revolution, Gould reveals that while class played a pivotal role in 1848, it was neighbourhood solidarity that was a decisive organizing force in 1871. Baron Haussmann's massive urban renovation projects between 1852 and 1868 dispersed workers from Paris' centre to newly annexed districts on the outskirts of the city. Residence rather than occupation quickly became the new basis of social solidarity. Drawing on evidence derived from trial documents, marriage certificates, reports of police spies and the popular press, Gould demonstrates that this fundamental rearrangement in the patterns of social life made possible a neighbourhood insurgent movement; whereas the insurgents of 1848 fought and died in defence of their status as workers, those of 1871 did so as members of a besieged urban community.

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About the Author

Roger V. Gould (1963-2002) was associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and editor of the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict, published by the University of Chicago Press.

From the Back Cover

In this important contribution both to the study of social protest and to French social history, Roger Gould breaks with previous accounts that portray the Paris Commune of 1871 as a continuation of the class struggles of the 1848 Revolution. Focusing on the collective identities framing conflict during these two upheavals and in the intervening period, Gould reveals that while class played a pivotal role in 1848, it was neighborhood solidarity that was the decisive organizing force in 1871.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226305600
• ISBN 13: 9780226305608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262