Revolutionary Republicanism?provides a history of French republicanism seen through a seminal episode of its creation - the 1848 revolution.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The two faces of the French republic
- The 1848 Revolution and the meaning of the republic
- Which history of republicanism?
- The republic and its double
1 From one revolution to another (1789 1848)
- Ultra- royalist reaction and the emergence of the liberal movement
- Configurations of the liberal movement
- The theory of representative government
- Representative government in practice
- The emergence of the republican movement
- Republicans and the proletariat
- The association: a shared arena for workers and republicans
- The politicisation of local elections and the reformist movement
- Electoral reform and the social question
- The banquet campaign and the fall of the July regime
2 The February Republic: A plural system
- Establishment of the Provisional Government
- Restructuring of the National Guard
- Establishment of the Luxembourg Commission
- The beginnings of the club movement
- The transformation of citizenship
- The unrepresentable
3 Institutions under the February Republic: A bone of contention
- The Provisional Government: temporary administration or revolutionary authority?
- The Parisian NationlsÆ