Description & Citation--Study No. 9080

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

09080

Title:

Violent Events in France, 1830-1860 and 1930-1960

Principal Investigator(s):

Tilly, Charles

Zambrano, Raul

Funding:

Princeton University. Center for International Studies

Social Science Research Council

National Science Foundation

Bibliographic Citation:

Tilly, Charles, and Raul Zambrano. Violent Events in France, 1830-1860 and 1930-1960. ICPSR09080-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1989. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09080.v1

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection was constructed as part of an ongoing research project aimed at examining and reformulating alternative explanations of conflict in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Information is supplied on the characteristics of each set of participants in a violent event ("formation"), including demographic, occupational, and political variables, and on the characteristics of the event as a whole. The magnitude of each disturbance is described by information on the number of participants, the number of man-days expended, and the number of participants killed, wounded, or arrested, as well as the form and extent of violence, property damage, and the immediate consequences of the violent event. Included also are descriptive data specifying the date, duration, location, and proximate causes of each event, and the major divisions separating its antagonists. In addition, the data collection identifies the sources reporting each event and cites key descriptive words used in the accounts of the incident.

Subject Terms:

conflict, demographic characteristics, nineteenth century, occupations, political influences, twentieth century, violence

Geographic Coverage:

France, Global

Date of Collection:

  • 1962--1988

Universe:

Violent events having at least 50 persons in one of the groups involved resulting in seizure, injury, or damage to at least one person or object that occurred in public places within continental France during the years 1830 to 1860 and 1930 to 1960. To qualify as a violent event, the person or object sustaining the attack had to be or belong to someone outside the acting group. Incidents in which troops or police inflicted the only violence are excluded.

Data Types:

event/transaction data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The six files that constitute this collection comprise the components of a relational database, i.e., the information pertaining to any single event is contained in different files that share one or more common fields. (2) This collection is an extensively revised version of a recently dearchived ICPSR study: DISTURBANCES IN FRANCE, 1830-1860 AND 1930-1960: GENERAL SAMPLE (ICPSR 0050).

Methodology

Sample:

All events encompassed by the universe.

Data Source:

The data were culled from archives, newspapers, general histories, yearbooks, monographs, and other published sources.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1989-03-03

Version History:

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

Dataset(s):

  • DS1: Description of Each Violent Event
  • DS2: Magnitude of Each Violent Event
  • DS3: Location of Each Violent Event
  • DS4: Description of Each Formation
  • DS5: Characteristics of All Formations ThatConstitute a Violent Event
  • DS6: Sources Used For Each Violent Event

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