The French Second Empire
Title | The French Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Price |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2001-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139430971 |
This is a most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernization' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens.
The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871
Title | The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871 PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Plessis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521358569 |
The Second Empire lasted longer than any French regime since 1789, yet most historical accounts of the government of Napoleon III have been overshadowed by the knowledge of its disastrous and tragic end. As Professor Plessis shows in this detailed thermatic study, such an approach ignores the major social, economic, and political developments of a period that witnessed the gradual acceptance of univeral suffrage, the establishment of large-scale industrial capitalism, a massive improvement in communications, and the birth of impressionism in art.
City of Light
Title | City of Light PDF eBook |
Author | Rupert Christiansen |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2018-10-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1541673433 |
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugè Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new rail stations and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year project of urban renewal which -- despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, and bankruptcy -- set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe. Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris.
Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire
Title | Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | J. M. Thompson |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2017-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787206696 |
An excellent one volume portrait of Napoleon III and the short-lived second French Empire which was brought to ruins by the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. “ONCE again J. M. Thompson has given us a colorful, arresting, and interpretative account of a period of French history—this time of the Second Empire. In this instance, as in previous works, the author makes the biography of a man (Louis Napoleon) the vehicle for a history of a period, thereby infusing the warmth of a very human personality throughout the history of a complex and fateful era. Thus we follow the life of a man who followed his star of fate from youthful refugee to insurrectionist, prisoner, president, emperor, economic reformer, arbiter of a continent, prisoner-of-war, and, alas, to refugee again until death. Nothing of the romance, the contrasts, the shaded significances is lost by the author's telling. Those who have read his French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte cannot fail to discern and appreciate the same trenchant pen and deft brush which restore life and odor to a much-told tale of the past. While Mr. Thompson does not attempt to conceal the faults and mistakes of the man, in the main he joins with some current revisionists in understanding (not justifying) the "crime of December 2nd" and crediting Napoleon Ili with constructive policies at home and abroad and exonerating him of the major responsibility for the outbreak of the war of 1870. The author rightly blames Bismarck and French public opinion of all classes for pushing Louis Napoleon into the war (p. 272) rather than just a small war party and the empress.”-Lynn M. Case
Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire
Title | Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Halliday Cheetham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
The Second French Republic 1848-1852
Title | The Second French Republic 1848-1852 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Guyver |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2016-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137597402 |
This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.
Napoleon III and the Second Empire
Title | Napoleon III and the Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Roger D. Price |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134734689 |
In Napoleon III and the Second Empire, Roger D. Price considers the mid-century crisis which provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with the opportunity to gain elective office as President. The author outlines the objectives of Napoleon III and provides: * A historiographical review of the ruler and his regime * Details of changing historical attitudes to the period * A survey of Napoleon III's economic, social and political impact * An outline of the man's reign and his achievements