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Shaping Modern Times in Rural France

Author : Susan Carol Rogers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226849
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Shaping Modern Times in Rural France written by Susan Carol Rogers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.

France on Display

Author : Shanny Peer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791437094
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book France on Display written by Shanny Peer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores national identity in twentieth-century France.

Education and Identity in Rural France

Author : Deborah Reed-Danahay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521483123
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Education and Identity in Rural France written by Deborah Reed-Danahay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote farming community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She demonstrates how parents and children subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense of local difference is sustained and valued, through a complex interplay of schooling and family life. This book explores the role played by history, identity, and power in local responses to a national institution. A significant contribution to the anthropology of education, this book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation. Dr Reed-Danahay also provides lucid and critical discussions of sociological theories on education, including those of Bourdieu.

Rural Inventions

Author : Sarah Farmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019007907X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Rural Inventions written by Sarah Farmer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In post-World War II France, commitment to cutting-edge technological modernization and explosive economic growth uprooted rural populations and eroded the village traditions of a largely peasant nation. And yet, this book argues, rural France did not vanish in the sweeping transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. The attachment of the French to rural ways and the agricultural past became a widely-shared preoccupation in the 1970s; this, in turn, became an engine of change in its own right. Though the French countryside is often imagined as stable and enduring, this book presents it as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation. Rural Inventions explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in going back to the land; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. The peasantry as a social class may have died out, but the countryside persisted, valued as a site not only for agriculture but increasingly for sport and leisure, tourism, and social and political engagement; a place to dwell part-time as well as full-time; and a natural environment worth protecting. The postwar French state and the nation's rural and urban inhabitants remade the French countryside in relation to the city and to the world at large, not only invoking traditional France but also creating a vibrant and evolving part of the France yet to come"--

Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France

Author : Kathryn Louise Reyerson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004108509
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France by : Kathryn Louise Reyerson

Download or read book Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France written by Kathryn Louise Reyerson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc and Provence in the Middle Ages. The importance of a Roman law tradition and the new institutions of the notary and his records are observed in both urban and rural contexts, and interactions between town and country are featured.

The Human Tradition in Modern France

Author : K. Steven Vincent
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461644380
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Human Tradition in Modern France written by K. Steven Vincent and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging textbook provides a human perspective of the history of France from 1789 to the present through essays that highlight individuals and intriguing events that too often have been lost under labels and statistics. Students will gain an understanding of the humor and passion in French history from these original chapters by established scholars. This collection also relates the individuals, events, and controversies to current historiographical debates. The Human Tradition in Modern France is an excellent supplementary text for courses on French history as well as on Western Civilization.

Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939

Author : Laird Boswell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801434211
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939 written by Laird Boswell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive interviews with thirty-four surviving Communist militants and an analysis of voter behavior, this book focuses on the Party's persistent strength during the interwar period in such rural strongholds as Limousin and Dordogne.

Peasant and French

Author : James R. Lehning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467704
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Peasant and French written by James R. Lehning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.

Smokestacks in the Hills

Author : Lou Martin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097564
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Smokestacks in the Hills written by Lou Martin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class--and what that meant for communities and for labor. As Martin shows, access to land in and around steel and pottery towns allowed residents to preserve rural habits and culture. Workers in these places valued place and local community. Because of their belief in localism, an individualistic ethic of "making do," and company loyalty, they often worked to place limits on union influence. At the same time, this localism allowed workers to adapt to the dictates of industrial capitalism and a continually changing world on their own terms--and retain rural ways to a degree unknown among their urbanized peers. Throughout, Martin ties these themes to illuminating discussions of capital mobility, the ways in which changing work experiences defined gender roles, and the persistent myth that modernizing forces bulldozed docile local cultures. Revealing and incisive, Smokestacks in the Hills reappraises an overlooked stratum of American labor history and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on shifts in national politics in the postwar era.

Framing the Nation

Author : Alison J. Murray Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144113963X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Nation written by Alison J. Murray Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that interwar documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative

The Light-Green Society

Author : Michael Bess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226044170
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Light-Green Society written by Michael Bess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place.

Troubled Fields

Author : Eric Ramírez-Ferrero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130252
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Fields written by Eric Ramírez-Ferrero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide--not accident as previously assumed--was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among male farmers. Ramirez-Ferrero suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. Using emotions and gender as modes of analysis, he locates these men's stories in the wider context of American history, agricultural economics and politics, capitalism, and Christianity.

Seducing the French

Author : Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520206983
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Seducing the French written by Richard F. Kuisel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France

Author : Rebecca Pulju
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001358
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France written by Rebecca Pulju and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France.

Enacting Brittany

Author : Patrick Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317144066
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Enacting Brittany written by Patrick Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brittany offers an excellent example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the twentieth century. It is therefore a strategic choice as a case study of some of the processes associated with the emergence of mass tourism, and the effects of this kind of tourism development on local populations. Efforts to package Breton cultural difference in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This study explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Chapters are arranged thematically and consider the rise of rural tourism in France and the preservation, display, and enactment of Breton culture in its most visible locations: the natural landscape of Brittany, Breton dress, early heritage festivals and religious Pardons. The final chapter explores the staging of Breton culture at the Paris World's Fair of 1937 and the roots of state-sponsored mass tourism. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will also be invaluable to historians and social scientists concerned with understanding the dynamics involved in the emergence of mass tourism, its causes and consequences in particular locales in the present as well as in the past.

Selling the Yellow Jersey

Author : Eric Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620667X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Selling the Yellow Jersey written by Eric Reed and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America in early 2013 when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong with suspicion, had already moved on. The bellwether events of the year were Chris Froome’s victory in the Tour and the ousting of Pat McQuaid as director of the Union Cycliste Internationale. Even without Armstrong, the Tour will roll on— its gigantic entourage includes more than 200 racers, 450 journalists, 260 cameramen, 2,400 support vehicles carrying 4,500 people, and a seven-mile-long publicity caravan. It remains one of the most-watched annual sporting events on television and a global commercial juggernaut. In Selling the Yellow Jersey, Eric Reed examines the Tour’s development in France as well as the event’s global athletic, cultural, and commercial influences. The race is the crown jewel of French cycling, and at first the newspapers that owned the Tour were loath to open up their monopoly on coverage to state-owned television. However, the opportunity for huge payoffs prevailed, and France tapped into global networks of spectatorship, media, business, athletes, and exchanges of expertise and personnel. In the process, the Tour helped endow world cycling with a particularly French character, culture, and structure, while providing proof that globalization was not merely a form of Americanization, imposed on a victimized world. Selling the Yellow Jersey explores the behind-the-scenes growth of the Tour, while simultaneously chronicling France’s role as a dynamic force in the global arena.

Film and Community in Britain and France

Author : Margaret Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712640
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Film and Community in Britain and France written by Margaret Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivelant. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accomodating the changed aspirations of women. Margaret Butler examines these subjects and more in her comparative study of the cinemas of Britain and France during and after the war. Using the concept of continuity, she shows how cinema dealt directly with ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, unity and division. She also draws on contemporary debates and offers a perceptive reading of key films, to reveal the meaning and appeal of French classics like "Les Enfants du Paradis" and notable British productions like "Waterloo Road".