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Book Philippe Ari  s and the Politics of French Cultural History

Download or read book Philippe Ari s and the Politics of French Cultural History written by Patrick H. Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing study of one of the twentieth century's most original and influential historians; The author of Centuries of Childhood and other landmark historical works, Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a path-breaking scholar, a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy regime and a founder of the new cultural history - popularly known as l'histoire des mentalites - that developed in the decades following World War II. In this book, Patrick H. Hutton explores the relationship between Aries's life and thought and evaluates his contribution to modern historiography, in France and abroad. According to Hutton, the originality of Aries's work and the power of his appeal derived from the way he drew together the two strands of his own intellectual life: his enduring ties to the old cultural order valued by the right-wing Action Francaise, and a newfound appreciation for the methodology of the leftist Annales school of historians. private life that eventually won him a wide readership and in late life an appointment to the faculty of the prestigious Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At the same time, he fashioned himself as a man of letters in the intellectual tradition of the Action francaise and became a perspicacious journalist as well as a stimulating writer of autobiographical memoirs. In Hutton's view, this helps explain why, more than any other historian, Philippe Aries left his personal signature on his scholarship.

Book Philippe Ari  s and the Politics of French Cultural History

Download or read book Philippe Ari s and the Politics of French Cultural History written by Patrick H. Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural History in France

Download or read book Cultural History in France written by Evelyne Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies, media studies, and gender studies – to elaborate a "social history of representations." Historians, philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and methodological proposals. Definitions, objects and actors, memories and cultural transfers: this book depicts the major questions that underlie the historical debate at the beginning of the 21st century.

Book France s New Deal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Nord
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-26
  • ISBN : 0691156115
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book France s New Deal written by Philip Nord and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third Republic and under the Vichy regime. Tracking the nation's evolution from the 1930s through the postwar years, Nord describes how a variety of political actors--socialists, Christian democrats, technocrats, and Gaullists--had a hand in the construction of modern France. Nord examines the French development of economic planning and a cradle-to-grave social security system; and he explores the nationalization of radio, the creation of a national cinema, and the funding of regional theaters. Nord shows that many of the policymakers of the Liberation era had also served under the Vichy regime, and that a number of postwar institutions and policies were actually holdovers from the Vichy era--minus the authoritarianism and racism of those years. From this perspective, the French state after the war was neither entirely new nor purely social-democratic in inspiration. The state's complex political pedigree appealed to a range of constituencies and made possible the building of a wide base of support that remained in place for decades to come. A nuanced perspective on the French state's postwar origins, France's New Deal chronicles how one modern nation came into being.

Book Death in Berlin

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  • Author : Monica Black
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-10
  • ISBN : 0521118514
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Death in Berlin written by Monica Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall.

Book France Since 1870

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  • Author : Charles Sowerwine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780312237493
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book France Since 1870 written by Charles Sowerwine and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Place and Locality in Modern France

Download or read book Place and Locality in Modern France written by Philip Whalen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book True France

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  • Author : Herman Lebovics
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780801426872
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book True France written by Herman Lebovics and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the creation of a certain idea of Frenchness in the first fifty years of the 20th century. The author's concern is to assess the penalties of incorporating people in a narrowly defined construction of the French cultural world, and to understand what it meant for French people of Paris and the provinces, and for colonial people, to be included within an imagined French identity. --pref.

Book History of Pennsylvania

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  • Author : Philip S. Klein
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 027103839X
  • Pages : 651 pages

Download or read book History of Pennsylvania written by Philip S. Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Private Life

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  • Author : Philippe Ari`es
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780674399747
  • Pages : 710 pages

Download or read book A History of Private Life written by Philippe Ari`es and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has Vol. 1-5.

Book French Cultural Studies

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  • Author : Jill Forbes
  • Publisher : Clarendon Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780198715016
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book French Cultural Studies written by Jill Forbes and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Cultural Studies: An Introduction challenges received theories about France and French culture. The book takes into account the major changes which have been taking place in the context of French Studies in both secondary and higher education, with the focus shifting to a broader range of cultural forms. The Introduction adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of French culture and society since 1870, emphasizing recent and contemporary developments. It suggests new ways of looking at France and the French-speaking world through the ideas, images, and narratives of more than a century of turbulent history and political change. As well as looking at the literary, artistic, and intellectual culture for which France is renowned, the authors examine audio-visual media, popular culture, and cultural policy. They follow the stages of French history through periods of industrialization and war, reconstruction and modernization, and the crises and revolutions of post-colonialism and postmodernity. Also explored are the development of interconnecting patterns and cultural forms, in addition to the ways in which culture has shaped and refected social and historical change. Copiously illustrated, and with guidance for further reading, this fascinating and authoritative work will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary French society and its culture.

Book Dividing the Land

Download or read book Dividing the Land written by Edward T. Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many property lines drawn in early America still survive today and continue to shape the landscape and character of the United States. Surprisingly, though, no one until now has thoroughly examined the process by which land was divided into private property and distributed to settlers from the beginning of colonization to early nationhood. In this unprecedented study, Edward T. Price covers most areas of the United States in which the initial division of land was controlled by colonial governments—the original thirteen colonies, and Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. By examining different land policies and the irregular pattern of property that resulted from them, Price chronicles the many ways colonies managed land to promote settlement, develop agriculture, defend frontiers, and attract investment. His analysis reveals as much about land planning techiniques carried to America from Europe as innovations spurred by the unique circumstances of the new world. Price’s analysis draws on his thorough survey of property records from the first land plans in Virginia in 1607 to empresario grants in Texas in the 1820s. This breadth of data allows him to identify regional differences in allocating land, assess the impact of land planning by historical figures like William Penn of Pennsylvania and Lord Baltimore of Maryland, and trace changes in patterns of land division and ownership through transfers of power among Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas.

Book The Making of Modern France

Download or read book The Making of Modern France written by Emmanuel Todd and published by Blackwell Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the state of French society which argues that between 1980 and 1990 France underwent a revolution comparable in force to the Revolution of 1789 and with consequences of a depth equal to those of industrialization.

Book Lost Worlds

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  • Author : Jonathan Dewald
  • Publisher : Penn State University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780271058665
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Lost Worlds written by Jonathan Dewald and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today. Lost Worlds sheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian's task came into being.

Book Lotteries in Colonial America

Download or read book Lotteries in Colonial America written by Neal Millikan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotteries in Colonial America examines the role lotteries played in the economic life of the colonies, as an alternative form of raising revenue for public and private projects that was utilized from the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution.

Book Empire of Fortune

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  • Author : Francis Jennings
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780393306408
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Empire of Fortune written by Francis Jennings and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A riveting, massively documented epic [that] overturns textbook clichés.... This impassioned study throws valuable light on our history." --Publishers Weekly

Book Centuries of Childhood

Download or read book Centuries of Childhood written by Philippe Ariès and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book, now regarded as a hugely influential and classic study, Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. This edition includes a new introduction.