2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Socio-economic Analysis of Political Elite in Modern France, using Applied Prosopographic Approach
Project/Area Number |
24520823
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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Research Institution | Tohoku University |
Principal Investigator |
ODANAKA Naoki 東北大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (70233559)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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Keywords | フランス史 / 政治エリート / プロソポグラフィ / 官選候補 / 第二帝制 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our purpose was to clarify the socio-economic character of political elite under the French Second Empire (1852-1870). We studied the selection process of French official candidates for the elections of Legislative Body (le Corps Legislatif) members in the so-called "Grand Ouest" region (composed of 25 departments in the French western area) under that regime, using the so-called <<applied prosopographical>> approach which uses as data the information extracted by prosopographical analyses already done. We found a trend that the industrial or commercial class members had become preferred to the land owners under the Second Empire. From this finding we conclude that the widely-shared image of 19th-century French society as dominated by the Notables (see Daniel Halevy's argument) must be reconsidered, and that the Second Empire must be regarded as a somewhat progressive regime.
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Free Research Field |
フランス社会経済史
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