Author : Alistair Cole
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780719071508
This text investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. It draws on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data.
Author : Edward G. Berenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801460646
In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, and values. Although constantly in flux, the Republic has nonetheless produced a set of core ideals and practices fundamental to modern France's political culture and democratic life. Based on the influential Dictionnaire critique de la république, published in France in 2002, The French Republic provides an encyclopedic survey of French republicanism since the Enlightenment. Divided into three sections—Time and History, Principles and Values, and Dilemmas and Debates—The French Republic begins by examining each of France’s five Republics and its two authoritarian interludes, the Second Empire and Vichy. It then offers thematic essays on such topics as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; laicity; citizenship; the press; immigration; decolonization; anti-Semitism; gender; the family; cultural policy; and the Muslim headscarf debates. Each essay includes a brief guide to further reading. This volume features updated translations of some of the most important essays from the French edition, as well as twenty-two newly commissioned English-language essays, for a total of forty entries. Taken together, they provide a state-of-the art appraisal of French republicanism and its role in shaping contemporary France’s public and private life.
Author : Catherine Raissiguier
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804757615
This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration.
Author : Pierre Nora
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231106344
Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.
Author : Edward James Kolla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107179548
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author : Gwynne Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134937407
First Published in 2004. Historical Connections is a new series of short books on important historical topics and debates, written primarily for those studying and teaching history. The books will offer original and challenging works of synthesis that will make new themes accessible, or old themes accessible in new ways, build bridges between different chronological periods and different historical debates, and encourage comparative discussion in history. This book is divided into two parts. Part I provides an interpretation of events covering the causes and course of the Revolution; Part II focuses more specifically upon the controversies surrounding the economic, social and cultural policies associated with the Revolution.
Author : Gary Wilder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226897680
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.
Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520248163
Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Jonathan Smyth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526103818
The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a compulsory political event, this book redefines its importance as a hugely popular national event. Hitherto unused or disregarded source material is used to offer new perspective to the national reaction to Robespierre's creation of the Festival and of his search for a new republican morality. It is the first ever detailed study in English of this area of French Revolutionary history, the first in any language since 1988 and will be welcomed by scholars and students of this period.
