The French Second Empire by Roger Price
This thoroughly researched book on the Second Empire examines how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was able to secure election as President of the Republic and subsequently to launch a coup d' tat to establish a Second Empire. It considers the ways in which power was exercised by the new empire and how Napoleon I engaged in a difficult process of transition towards more liberal policies only to experience catastrophic defeat and the destruction of the regime because of war against Prussia.
'… a major achievement … It will surely - and deservedly - be regarded as the standard work on the 'anatomy' of a political system now receiving its due attention' H-FRANCE
'This book should prove to be invaluable to serious students and scholars of the French Second empire for many years to come … an absolute must for any and all serious students of the ill-fated Second Empire and its often (and to a degree overly) maligned emperor, Napoleon III.' History
'… a monumental achievement.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… wide-ranging and remarkably enjoyable.' Graham Robb, London Review of Books
'… Prices's study lies … in his impressive mastery of detail and in how he manages to clothe the bones of his subject with a wealth of information and illustrative material from an astonishingly wide range of sources.' History
'This book should prove to be invaluable to serious students and scholars of the French Second empire for many years to come … an absolute must for any and all serious students of the ill-fated Second Empire and its often (and to a degree overly) maligned emperor, Napoleon III.' History
'… a monumental achievement.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… wide-ranging and remarkably enjoyable.' Graham Robb, London Review of Books
'… Prices's study lies … in his impressive mastery of detail and in how he manages to clothe the bones of his subject with a wealth of information and illustrative material from an astonishingly wide range of sources.' History
Roger Price taught at the University of East Anglia, 1968–93, eventually becoming Professor of European History. In 1993 he moved to Aberystwyth as Professor of History. His many other books include The French Second Republic: A Social History (1972), Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the French Second Republic (1975), The Modernisation of Rural France: Communication Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France (1983), A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987), The Revolutions of 1848 (1988) and A Concise History of France (1993).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521036320 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521036321 |
| Title | The French Second Empire |
| Author | Roger Price |
| Series | New Studies In European History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2007-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 520 |
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