Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Photographs
• Preface
• 1 Peasants and peasantry in nineteenth-century France
• The Rural community
• Contemporary portrayals of the peasantry
• Current perceptions of the peasantry
• Peasant collectivism and risk
• 2 The theory and practice of fraternal association in nineteenth century France
• The discourse of fraternity
• The practice of fraternal association
• The theorisation of voluntary associations
• Towards an historical geography of voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century
• 3 Loir-et-Cher during the nineteenth century: period, place and people
• The department and pays of Loir-et-Cher
• Population and settlement patterns
• Processes of change
• The character of change
• Towards an historical geography of voluntary associations in rural Loir-et-Cher during the nineteenth century
• 4 Insurance Societies
• Agricultural insurance companies
• Livestock insurance societies
• 5 Mutual aid societies
• Context
• The development and diffusion of mutual aid societies
• Characteristics of the earliest mutual aid societies
• Characteristics of mutual aid societies 1850-1914
• 6 Fire-fighting corps
• The development and spread of fire brigades
• The promotion of fire brigades
• The structure of fire brigades
• The evolution of fire brigades
• 7 Anti-phylloxera syndicates
• The diffusion of a disaster
• Crisis management by the central authorities
• The spread of anti-phylloxera syndicates
• Disillusion and dissolution
• Politicisation of the peasantry?
• 9 Agricultural associations
• Context
• The Society of Agriculture and the comices agricoles
• Agricultural syndicates
• The Syndicat des Agriculteurs de Loir-et-Cher
• Threshing associations
• Other associations
• 9 Synthesis: conclusions, comparisons and conjectures
• La routine paysanne?
• Fraternal associations in Loir-et-Cher 1815-1914
• L'esprit d'association?
• Fraternity among the French peasantry 1815-1914
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index