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Author : Barrett Wendell
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The France of Today written by Barrett Wendell and published by New York : C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1907 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822309970
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary News written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language. It breaks new ground in examining not only the famous journalists but the obscure publishers and the anonymous readers of the Revolutionary newspapers. Popkin examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises and the way in which radical journalists like Marat and the Pere Duchene used their papers to promote democracy.
Author : Erik Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004207538
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Jews of France Today written by Erik Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a national, empirical survey, this book presents a rich portrait of the Jews of France today. An expanded translation of a French edition, the book explores the demographics, identity, communal participation, social issues and values of this community.
Author : Alan Montefiore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296731
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in France Today written by Alan Montefiore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven leading contemporary French philosophers give here more or less direct presentations and exemplifications of their work. All the essays, with one exception, were specifically written for this volume and for an English-speaking readership - the exception is the first publication anywhere of Jacques Derrida's defence of his thèse d'état in 1980, based on his published works. As a collection the essays convey the style, tone and preoccupations, as well as the range and diversity, of French philosophical thinking as it is being practised today. They will stimulate and inform the rapidly growing interest in this area outside France.
Author : Philippe Portier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000593304
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Religion and Secularism in France Today written by Philippe Portier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France. The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education from religion are the two fundamental pillars of France as a secular republic. The historical construction of French secularism (laïcité) was particularly marked by the strong opposition between the state and the Catholic church. However, the religious disaffiliation of a significant proportion of the French strengthened state secularism, which gradually became more consensual – despite some persisting tensions in the school context. Yet, in the last decades, several factors have revived public debate on laicity: the quarrel over ‘sects’ and new religious movements; controversies over Islam, today the second-largest religion in France; and, more recently, dispute over bioethics. Faced with these challenges, laicity as well as the religious groups involved have been changing. The authors of this book, ranking amongst the best French experts in the study of religion and secularism, introduce the reader to a living and lived laicity influenced by the social and religious dynamics of contemporary France. They demonstrate that the configurations of French secularism are both more flexible and complex than they appear to be. The volume investigates the extent to which the French idea of secularization has been pushed to be more thorough and radical in its interaction with its other European counterparts. A key work on French political thought, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of international politics, political philosophy, political sociology, and religion and politics.
Author : Barrett Wendell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019847510
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The France of Today written by Barrett Wendell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the charm, culture, and contradictions of modern France in this lyrical and insightful portrait by Wendell, a prominent literary critic and Francophile. From the boulevards of Paris to the hamlets of Provence, he explores the traditions, innovations, and tensions that shape the French identity and way of life, and offers a nuanced and affectionate perspective on this enduring and enchanting nation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Barrett Wendell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330202746
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The France of Today written by Barrett Wendell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The France of Today The fact that this book has had the good fortune to reach a new edition enables me to correct certain errors concerning the university system, into which, at least apparently, I had fallen. This I may best do by paraphrasing letters from French friends who have had the kindness to point them out. On page 10, I hastily grouped together the Collège de France, the École Normale and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. My intention was merely to imply that these establishments were, each in its own way, apart from the general university system which I was trying to expound. The grouping of them together was at best infelicitous; and certainly the subsequent comments on them were, in various ways, mistaken. The École Libre des Sciences Politiques, writes one friend, is completely independent of the State. There is no need that its professors have any university degree whatever. The authorities of the school choose any one whom they deem fit, and hold this freedom of choice among the chief elements of their strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Patrick Boucheron
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519418
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book France in the World written by Patrick Boucheron and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard J. Golsan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498550339
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Vichy Past in France Today written by Richard J. Golsan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory is an interdisciplinary study examining the continuing impact of the memory of Vichy and World War II in French politics, literature, intellectual discourse and debates, and the law. It argues that despite multiple efforts in all of these areas to come to terms with France’s World War II past and to fulfill a “duty to memory” to Vichy’s Jewish victims, the nation is still not reconciled to the so-called “Dark Years,” even seventy years after the Liberation. Indeed the Vichy past “occupies” important recent works of literature, inflects much political discussion and debate, often serving as a metaphor for political (and moral) evil. Its legacies include the passage of problematic laws that dangerously distort and simplify complex historical realities. Chapter I examines the historical and legal legacies of the 1990s trials for crimes against humanity and traces their impact on the so-called “memorial laws” of the new century. Chapter II revisits the 2002 presidential elections in France and the impact of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s first round victory on intellectual and cultural debate. Chapter III explores Alain Badiou’s controversial characterization of Sarkozy’s presidential victory as a return of “Petainism” in The Meaning of Sarkozy. The discussion is cast against the backdrop of Badiou’s “radical” political thought and Sarkozy’s political uses and misuses of the World War II past. Chapter IV examines the controversy surrounding the publication of Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2006) and its morally and historically problematic portrayal of an unrepentant Nazi and SS officer. Chapter V discusses Yannick Haenel’s fictional recreation of the Polish resistance hero Jan Karski (The Messenger, 2009) in his novel by that name, and the polemics between the novel’s author and the maker of the classic Holocaust documentary film, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann. The Conclusion first explores the ways in which the memory of Vichy inflects literary and political reflections on the recent terrorist attacks in France. It also examines strategies proposed by French philosophers for moving beyond the “impasse” of Vichy’s memory in France before concluding with a different strategy proposed by the author for the French nation to move beyond the memory of the Dark Years.
Author : John Ardagh
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book France Today written by John Ardagh and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ardagh examines the lives and attitudes of French people as they look to the future. The great changes that have taken place since the last War are covered, in particular the record of the Socialists in power from 1981- 1986 and the right-of-centre government which followed them.
Author : Janine Marsh
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782437339
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
Download or read book My Good Life in France written by Janine Marsh and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride.
Author : Nicolas Bancel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253026512
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Legacy in France written by Nicolas Bancel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Françoise Vergès, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others.
Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129314
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The History of Modern France written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary sequence of events of this period from the end of the First Revolution through two others, a return of Empire, three catastrophic wars with Germany, periods of stability and hope interspersed with years of uncertainty and high tensions. As her cross-Channel neighbour Great Britain would equally suffer, France was to undergo the wrenching loss of colonies in the post-Second World War as the new modern world we know today took shape. Her attempts to become the leader of the European union is a constant struggle, as was her lack of support for America in the two Gulf Wars of the past twenty years. Alongside this came huge social changes and cultural landmarks but also fundamental questioning of what this nation, which considers itself exceptional, really stood - and stands - for. That saga and those questions permeate the France of today, now with an implacable enemy to face in the form of Islamic extremism which so bloodily announced itself this year in Paris. Fenby will detail every event, every struggle and every outcome across this expanse of 200 years. It will prove to be the definitive guide to understanding France.
Author : David Howarth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134659199
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Contemporary France written by David Howarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.
Author : John ARDAGH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book France Today written by John ARDAGH and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stéphane Henaut
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972522
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Bite-Sized History of France written by Stéphane Henaut and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "delicious" (Dorie Greenspan), "genial" (Kirkus Reviews), "very cool book about the intersections of food and history" (Michael Pollan)—as featured in the New York Times "The complex political, historical, religious and social factors that shaped some of [France's] . . . most iconic dishes and culinary products are explored in a way that will make you rethink every sprinkling of fleur de sel." —The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed upon its hardcover publication as a "culinary treat for Francophiles" (Publishers Weekly), A Bite-Sized History of France is a thoroughly original book that explores the facts and legends of the most popular French foods and wines. Traversing the cuisines of France's most famous cities as well as its underexplored regions, the book is enriched by the "authors' friendly accessibility that makes these stories so memorable" (The New York Times Book Review). This innovative social history also explores the impact of war and imperialism, the age-old tension between tradition and innovation, and the enduring use of food to prop up social and political identities. The origins of the most legendary French foods and wines—from Roquefort and cognac to croissants and Calvados, from absinthe and oysters to Camembert and champagne—also reveal the social and political trends that propelled France's rise upon the world stage. As told by a Franco-American couple (Stéphane is a cheesemonger, Jeni is an academic) this is an "impressive book that intertwines stories of gastronomy, culture, war, and revolution. . . . It's a roller coaster ride, and when you're done you'll wish you could come back for more" (The Christian Science Monitor).
Author : James Shields
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861117
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Extreme Right in France written by James Shields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as providing a detailed biography of Le Pen, the leader of the National Front in France, this book also explores the wider development of the extreme right as a significant intellectual and political force within France.
