Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Dominant classes: the social elites -- INTRODUCTION -- ELITE STRUCTURES: STABILITY AND RENEWAL -- WEALTH AND PROFESSION -- FAMILY AND SOCIETY -- Nobility -- The grande bourgeoisie -- SOCIAL POWER -- Its moral basis -- Paternalism and self-justification -- Perceptions of danger -- Urban-industrial relationships -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2 Coming to terms with 'democracy' -- THE CHALLENGE -- THE EXERCISE OF INFLUENCE -- POLITICAL OPTIONS -- Bonapartists -- The expression of dissent -- Opposition - Legitimist and clerical -- Opposition - Orleanists and liberals -- Opposition - republicans -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3 Aspiring social groups: the middle classes -- INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION -- SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY -- A CRISE D'ADAPTATION -- AN EVOLVING 'CLASS' CONSCIOUSNESS -- POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- Support for the regime -- Opposition: Legitimist, Orleanist, and liberal -- Republican opposition -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 Peasants and rural society: a dominated class? -- INTRODUCTION -- SOURCES -- LANDOWNERSHIP -- THE BURDEN OF POVERTY -- THE 'IMPROVEMENT' OF AGRICULTURE -- EVIDENCE OF RISING PROSPERITY -- IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS -- A CRISE D'ADAPTATION -- PARTICULAR CRISES -- THE RURAL COMMUNITY -- WIDENING HORIZONS -- CHAPTER 5 Peasants and politics -- INTRODUCTION: POLITICISATION -- Past and present -- Localism -- Short-term factors -- THE PROCESS OF POLITICAL CHOICE -- A widespread conservatism -- Questioning established relationships -- POLITICAL OPTIONS -- Support for the regime -- The clerico-Legitimist option -- The Orleanist/liberal option -- Republican options -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6 The formation of a working class -- INTRODUCTION -- SOURCES -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT -- The workplace.

Work and its rewards -- Artisans -- Factory workers -- Domestic work -- Women's work -- The struggle to make ends meet -- Subsistence -- Housing -- Urban pathology -- RELATIONSHIPS -- 'Master-man' relationships -- Mutual assistance -- Trades unions -- COLLECTIVE ACTION -- The legal-administrative framework -- Occasions for strikes -- Characteristics of strikes -- Justifying collective action: the 'moral economy' -- Growing militancy -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7 The working-class challenge: socialisation and political choice -- AN EMERGING CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS? -- ALTERNATIVES TO CLASS -- POLITICISATION -- THE POLITICAL OPTIONS -- Bonapartism -- Legitimism -- Liberalism -- Republicanism -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- 1. ARCHIVES NATIONALES -- Series BB: Justice -- Series C: Assemblée nationale -- Series F7: Administration -- Police générale -- F8: Public hygiene -- F11: Subsistence -- F12: Commerce and industry -- F17: Education -- F18: Press -- F20 -- F70 -- O -- Series AB -- Series AD -- Series AP (Private papers) -- Series AQ -- 2. ARCHIVES DE LA PR ÉFECTURE DE POLICE -- 3. ARCHIVES DU SERVICE HISTORIQUE DE L'ARM ÉE DE TERRE -- 4. BIBLIOTH`EQUE NATIONALE -- 5. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH -- 6. UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR -- PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- 1. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS -- 2. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS -- 3. CONTEMPORARY BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index.