Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. An Insecure Republic 1
5. 2. The Founding Fathers 14
6. 3. Prefects, Schoolteachers, and Provincial Citizens 35
7. 4. Taming Paris 58
8. 5. Women, Workers, and Strikes 87
9. 6. The Invasion of Foreigners 109
10. 7. The Exciting Strangeness of Algeria 128
11. 8. Subversive Suffrage: Boulanger in Paris 155
12. 9. Epilogue 182
13. Selected Chronology, 1870-1892 187
14. Index 191