Used, tight copy, 247pp including maps, If you are interested in why French political life was so unstable in the 19th century, and if you want to learn something about class struggle between the rich & the poor and the struggle between clericalism & anti-clericalism in France, if you want to examine the changes in the electoral system and electoral management and if you want to know something about the struggle between church and state for control over education then this is the book for you. In this volume of Cobban"s history of modern France, he covers all the main political, social, economic and cultural developments between 1799-1871. A period that saw rise of Napoleon to power and the establishment of the "First Empire", The Restoration of the Monarchy, The Second Republic, The establishment of Second Empire under Napoleon III, and the brief existence of the Paris Commune in 1871.