Fraternity Among the French Peasantry Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914

Alan Baker has put together the first comprehensive study of voluntary associations in a French region in the nineteenth century. In doing so he challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists and examines the extent of their involvement in traditional, and new, forms of collective action.Baker, Alan R. H. is the author of 'Fraternity Among the French Peasantry Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914', published 0014 under ISBN 9780521602716 and ISBN 0521602718.