Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Louis-Napoléon BonaPart e, President of the Second Republic; Chapter 3 The authoritarian Empire; Chapter 4 Liberalisation; Chapter 5 Defeat and collapse; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Bibliography;

About the Author

Roger Price

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'This is a welcome addition to an invaluable series for students. It maintains the high standard of lucid synthesis of recent scholarship which one has come to expect from Lancaster Pamphlets.' - History Review

'This concise summary will be a basic text for students, and readers will be grateful to the author for taking on this volume which Ralph Gibson was planning to write before his untimely death.' - History Review