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Place and locality in modern France / edited by Philip Whalen and Patrick Young
- Published
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xl, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Whalen, Philip and Young, Patrick
- Contents
- The local in French history : changing paradigms and possibilities / Patrick Young and Philip Whalen -- PART I. SPACE. The Republic of Marseille and the making of imperial France / Ian Coller -- The cartographic language of locality : lessons from Alsace / Catherine T. Dunlap -- Gastronomic Burgundy as a regional modernization project / Philip Whalen -- Imagining greater France in the provinces : the Strasbourg Colonial Exhibition of 1924 / Alison Carrol -- Annales historians' contested transformations of locality / Joseph Tendler -- A local and transnational approach to migration : the International Migration Service and its Marseilles office in the first half of the 20th century / Linda Guerry -- PART II. CULTURE. La lorraine artiste : modernity, nature, and the nation in the work of Émile Gallé and the École de Nancy / Jessica M. Dandona -- The Casbah des Oudaya : the colonial production of a historic district in Morocco / Stacy E. Holden -- Facing the nation : national sentiment and national belonging in the wartime writings of Irène Némirovsky and Léon Werth / Nathan Bracher -- Remembering Oradour and Schirmeck : struggles of regional memory and national commemoration / Elizabeth Vlossak -- Judging a book town by its cover : marketing French Villages du Livre / Audra Merfeld-Langston -- Our cousins in the New World : celebrating Mexico in the French Alps / N. Christine Brookes -- PART III. POLITICS. Local identities and internal migration : networking as a survival strategy in revolutionary and postrevolutionary France / Denise Z. Davidson -- Soldiers of the pays : localism and nationalism in the revolutionary era army / Christopher Tozzi -- From mal du pays to l'amour du pays : fatal nostalgia and the local in nineteenth-century France / Thomas Dodman -- An uncertain icon : the changing significance of the Croix occitane in the post-war Midi / Andrew W.M. Smith -- Adoption and adaptation : the survival of French départements / Thomas Procureur -- Le président? : Georges Frêche and the making of a local notable in late twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal.
- Summary
- "Place and Locality in Modern France is an edited collection that successfully analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book is a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history. The book investigates the politics of administrative reform, regionalism and projects of decentralization. It looks at the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place, explores the importance of ethnic, class and gender distinctions, and considers the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. In short, this text provides a sweeping account of the concept of the 'local' in French history in a way that will effectively bridge the divide between micro- and macro-history for those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781780936864 (hardback)
1780936869 (hardback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature; 2016
- Endowment Note
- Gift of the Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
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