Creating French Culture

Creating French Culture

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  • Author: Marie-Hélène Tesnière
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 0300062834
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 520

From monastic cloisters in the time of Charlemagne to the book-lined studies of twentieth-century authors, this splendid book presents an overview of the literary and artistic world in France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, today rich in collections of illuminated manuscripts, books, medals, maps, and prints, had its beginnings when Charles V established his library in the falcon tower of the Louvre. During the Middle Ages, culture was the handmaiden of Church and government; during the absolute monarchy, it became an instrument of propaganda; in the eighteenth century, it developed an independent voice. This book explores the changing relationship between power and culture in France as seen in the history of its national library.


Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

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  • Author: Alex Hughes
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 0415131863
  • Category : France
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 641

An international team of scholars contribute over 700 entries on contemporary French culture that range from Art, Gender, Politics and Literature to Media and the Economy. It is a vital companion for anyone interested in the culture of modern France.


Culture and Customs of France

Culture and Customs of France

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  • Author: W. Scott Haine
  • Publisher: Greenwood
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 350

Examines the culture and customs of the people of France.


Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate

Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate

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  • Author: Susan J. Terrio
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520221265
  • Category : Cooking
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

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


The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture

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  • Author: C. Lucas
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
  • ISBN: 9780080424095
  • Category : France
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398

The series of three volumes on The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture was conceived by a committee of internationally renowned scholars to stimulate a critical enquiry into the Revolution as a defining event in modern European history. Volume One investigates the nature of French political culture under the Old Regime and the processses by which revolutionary principles and practices were invented within the context of absolute monarchy. Volume Two presents a discussion of the political culture of the Revolution itself, from the declaration of the principle of national sovereignity by the National Assembly until the creation of the Consulate. Volume Three assesses the transformation of European political culture in response to the Revolution in the period up to 1848. The analysis focuses on the principle currents of post-Revolution political thought, and includes papers on the work of writers such as Burke, Saint-Simon, de Tocqueville and Michelet. Now Volume Four is published. Drawing clear inspiration from the earlier highly acclaimed volumes, Professor Baker has now edited a supplementary volume. It has as its aim to advance, by focusing more precisely on the period of the Terror, the explanation of the nature and implications of the political culture of the French Revolution that the earlier volumes initiated.


Culture and Customs of France

Culture and Customs of France

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  • Author: W. Scott Haine Ph.D.
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313060444
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 345

The French are of perennial interest, for, among other things, their style, their cuisine and wine, and their cultural output. Culture and Customs of France is a thoroughly jam-packed narrative through the glories that France continues to offer the world. The volume is a boon for preparing country reports, a must-read for travelers, and perfect for culture studies. Chapters on the land, people, and history, religion, social customs, gender, family, and marriage, cinema and media, literature, food and fashion, architecture and art, and performing arts are current and pleasurable to read.


The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

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  • Author: Roger Chartier
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822309932
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Reknowned historian Roger Chartier attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins" but by pinpointing the conditions that "made is possible because conceivable." Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, he synthesizes the half-century of scholarship that has created a sociology of culture for Revolutionary France, from education reform through widely circulated printed literature to popular expectations of government and society. Chartier's second contribution is to reexamine the conventional wisdom that there is a necessary link between the profound cultural transformation of the eighteenth century (generally characterized as the Enlightenment) and the abrupt Revolutionary rupture of 1789. "The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution" is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject. -- From product description.


Creating the MusŽe d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France

Creating the MusŽe d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: Penn State Press
  • ISBN: 9780271038346
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

This concise book presents the fascinating history of the creation of the Musee d'Orsay and the battles among the prominent politicians, curators, and historians over the architecture, collections, and concept of the museum.


The French Revolution and the creation of modern political culture

The French Revolution and the creation of modern political culture

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  • Author: CONFERENCE ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND MODERN POLITICAL CULTURE
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : un
  • Pages : 0


Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

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  • Author: Alexandra Hughes
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134788665
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 640

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.