Author: Evelyne Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780429295386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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"This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le dâeveloppement 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"--
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.
Author: Evelyne Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000021777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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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.
Author: Dr James Cannon
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472449398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris (1840-1940). This unusual territory came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. By analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a nuanced account of how the area was perceived by successive generations of Parisian novelists, poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners.
Author: Geoff Hare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Hare traces the gradual evolution of traditional French football values and considers the impact of new and controversial business practices. He asks what is peculiarly French about French football, and what does football tell us about France?.
Author: Charles Sowerwine
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312237509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
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Author: Emmet Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300050134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Discusses the effects of the Revolution on French painting, music, fiction, theater, philosophy, science, education, and religion
Author: Jill Forbes
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198715016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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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.
Author: Susan J. Terrio
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221265
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This book on the crafting of chocolate in contemporary France is itself delicious. It will be a classic of French ethnography and contribute in important ways to the ongoing debate about the role of national identity in the European Union."—Carole L. Crumley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "A real pathbreaker. The intensity of Terrio's engagement with her respondents shines from almost every page. The work contributes to our understanding of the politics of heritage. . . . It is a thoroughly researched and descriptively rich analysis of how anthropologists can approach weighty problems of identity, national-local relations, and the ideology of self and other."—Michael Herzfeld, author of Portrait of a Greek Imagination
Author: Peter N. Moogk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781628964516
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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