Fraternity among the French Peasantry : Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914

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In this 1999 book, Alan Baker has put together a 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.