Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xl, 221 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781474210843
Series Statement:
Cultural histories series
Content:
List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- The Local in French History : Changing Paradigms and Possibilities / Patrick Young and Philip Whalen -- I. Space -- 1. The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France / Ian Coller ; 2. Mapping Locality in Provincial France : The Cartographic Construction of Identity, Space, and Boundaries in Alsace-Lorraine / Catherine Dunlop ; 3. Modern Burgundy as Gastronomic Regime / Philip Whalen ; 4. Imagining Greater France in the Provinces: The Strasbourg Colonial Exhibition / Alison Carrol ; 5. Localizing Universalism : Annales Historians in Contested Transformations of Locality / Joseph Tendler ; 6. A Local/Transnational Approach to Migration : The International Migration Service and its Marseilles Office in the First Half of the 20th Century / Linda Guerry -- II. Culture -- 7. La Lorraine Artiste : Modernity, Nature, and the Nation in the Work of Eḿile Galle ́and the Ećole de Nancy / Jessica Dandona ; 8. The Casbah des Oudaya : The Colonial Production of a Historic District in Morocco / Stacy Holden ; 9. Facing the Nation : National Sentiment and National Belonging in the Wartime Writings of Ireǹe Neḿirovsky and León Werth / Nathan Bracher ; 10. Remembering Oradour and Struthof : Struggles of Regional Memory and National Commemoration / Elizabeth Vlossak ; 11. Judging a Book Town by Its Cover : Advertising Strategies of France's Villages du Livre / Audra Merfeld-Langston ; 12. Our Cousins in the New World : Celebrating Mexico in the French Alps / N. Christine Brookes -- III. Politics -- 13. Local Identities and Internal Migration : Networking as a Survival Strategy in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France / Denise Davidson ; 14. Soldiers of the Pays : Localism and Nationalism in the Revolutionary-Era Army / Christopher Tozzi ; 15. From mal du pays to l'amour du pays : Fatal Nostalgia and the Local in Nineteenth-Century France / Thomas Dodman ; 16. An Uncertain Icon : The Changing Significance of the Croix Occitane in the Post-War Midi / Andrew Smith ; 17. Adoption and Adaptation : The Survival French Deṕartements / Thomas Procureur ; 18. Le Preśident? Georges Freĉhe and the Making of a Local Notable in Late Twentieth Century France / Emile Chabal -- Index.
Content:
Place and Locality in Modern France 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 provides a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history. The contributed chapters address a range of subjects that include: the politics of administrative reform, decentralization, regionalism and local advocacy; the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place; the importance of ethnic, class, gender and race distinctions in shaping local connection and identity; the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. As a reconsideration of the 'local' in French history, Place and Locality in Modern France bridges the divide between micro- and macro-history for all those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780938417
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780938226
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780936864
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474210843
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