Book Description
A diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past.
Author : Laura Lee Downs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801444142
A diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past.
Author : Laura Lee Downs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0801464870
France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted quite the same hold on the American historical imagination, particularly in the post-1945 era. To gain a fresh perspective on this passionate relationship, Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson commissioned a diverse array of historians to write autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past. In addition to the essays, Why France? includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and an afterword by one of France's most distinguished historians, Roger Chartier. Taken together, these essays provide a rich and thought-provoking portrait of France, the Franco-American relationship, and a half-century of American intellectual life, viewed through the lens of the best scholarship on France.
Author : Guy Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Boucheron
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1590519418
This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle--the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilized a generation of French left-wing activists. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will be an essential resource for Francophiles and scholars alike.
Author : David Lebovitz
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0767932129
From the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city and after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he finally moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France. From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city. When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything. Once you stop laughing, the more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar–Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha–Crème Fraîche Cake, will have you running to the kitchen for your own taste of Parisian living.
Author : John R. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2008-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 0691138397
This text explains why the French government decided to ban religious clothing from public schools and why the 2004 law, which targeted Islamic headscarves, created such a fury.
Author : Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1402230575
"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William H. Sewell Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022677046X
"William H. Sewell, Jr. turns to the experience of commercial capitalism to show how the commodity form abstracted social relations. The increased independence, flexibility, and anonymity of market relations made equality between citizens not only conceivable but attractive. Commercial capitalism thus found its way into the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, coloring social relations and paving the way for the establishment of civic equality"--
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Periodicals
ISBN :