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Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution. The volume illustrates the integral exchanges that have taken place between France and the modern world from global trade in the eighteenth century to the impact of postcolonial immigration and globalization on French identity and on France’s diverse population. It includes the voices of women colonized populations and those who both embraced and challenged the spread of French ideas and values around the globe. Drawing on methodologies of social cultural and gender history this textbook integrates a wide range of analytical tools to entice readers to engage more deeply in France’s dynamic global history. By presenting the history of France and its global engagements from the mid-seventeenth century to the present this volume is an essential resource for all students who study the history politics and culture of modern France.

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Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France

Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France

The reputation of Francis I king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But in the twentieth century research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present volume brings together seventeen articles by Robert Knecht published over several decades on particular aspects of the reign with three specially translated from French into English. They examine the period in more depth than was possible in the author's 1994 biography of Francis I and include studies of the Concordat of 1516 with the papacy the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520 the lit-de-justice of 1527 and the visit to France of the Emperor Charles V in 1540. Other articles consider the king’s attitude to the Reformation his court his relations with Paris and visits to Aquitaine his patronage of architecture as demonstrated by his building of the ch¢teau of Fontainebleau and his relations with his mother Louise of Savoy and sister Marguerite d’Angoulªme. The king’s love of books and the political advice he received from scholars are also considered as well as the extent of his ’absolutism’. Two articles compare the English and French Reformations and the nobilities of the two countries. The volume is intended as a contribution to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Francis I’s accession. | Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France

GBP 39.99
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Algeria and France From Colonialism to Cooperation

Algeria and France From Colonialism to Cooperation

Beginning as a small seemingly insignificant rebellion in 1954 the Algerian struggle for independence assumed such proportions that it strangled France’s foreign policy threatened her international relations poisoned the political atmosphere and toppled one government after another. In this book first published in 1963 a specialist on French affairs assesses the impact on France of the Algerian problem the various attempts to solve that problem and the implications of the solution finally found. It is a study of conflict a careful consideration of the interaction between internal politics and a peculiarly difficult external problem – and most of all an objective and lucid presentation of the essential elements of a tragic episode in French history. | Algeria and France From Colonialism to Cooperation

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The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

This book first published in 1983 is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems and their effects on agricultural market structures finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation and the widening of horizons new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic sociological historical and geographical methods and data. | The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

GBP 51.99
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Revolutionary Republicanism Participation and Representation in 1848 France

Revolutionary Republicanism Participation and Representation in 1848 France

Revolutionary Republicanism provides a history of French republicanism seen through a seminal episode of its creation – the 1848 revolution. The process of reinventing republicanism in 1848 gave rise to two opposite understandings of republicanism: a moderate one that merely adapted the institutions of representative government to popular sovereignty and a more radical ‘social- democratic’ notion of republicanism based on inclusive forms of representation and aiming at the emancipation of the proletariat. These two notions of republicanism unfolded over the course of the few critical months between the revolution of February 1848 and the uprising of June 1848 which saw the victory of the moderate one. Playing devil’s advocate to the traditional republican history that casts 1848 as a mere step in the continuous history of French republicanism the book demonstrates that the events of the revolution amounted to a repression of all that the ‘Republic’ had meant up until that point particularly the forms of participation and popular representation hitherto seen as constituting a republican regime. The text also sets out to chart the history of the ‘democratic and social Republic’ as the socialist and worker revolutionaries of 1848 called the radical republicanism they dreamed of founding and believed would fulfil the republican promise of emancipation. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the French revolutions and the history of radical ideas. | Revolutionary Republicanism Participation and Representation in 1848 France

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Chemistry Pharmacy and Revolution in France 1777-1809

Chemistry Pharmacy and Revolution in France 1777-1809

This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that an appreciation of the history of pharmacy is essential to a full understanding of the constitution of modern science in particular the discipline of chemistry. As such it provides a novel interpretation of the chemical revolution (c. 1770-1789) that will no doubt generate much debate on the place of the chemical arts in this story a question that has hitherto lacked sufficient scholarly reflection. Furthermore the book situates this analysis within the broader context of the French Revolution arguing that an intimate and direct link can be drawn between the political upheavals and our vision of the chemical revolution. The story of the chemical revolution has usually been told by focusing on the small group of French chemists who championed Lavoisier's oxygen theory or else his opponents. Such a perspective emphasises competing theories and interpretations of critical experiments but neglects the challenging issue of who could be understood as practising chemistry in the eighteenth century. In contrast this study traces the tradition of pharmacy as a professional pursuit that relied on chemical techniques to prepare medicines and shows how one of the central elements of the chemical revolution was the more or less conscious disassociation of the new chemistry from this ancient chemical art. | Chemistry Pharmacy and Revolution in France 1777-1809

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'The Contending Kingdoms' France and England 1420–1700

'The Contending Kingdoms' France and England 1420–1700

The kingdoms of France and England were for many centuries military economic cultural and colonial rivals. This is particularly true of the early modern period which witnessed the rise of French military hegemony and the expansion of English commerce. Dealing with the period 1420-1700 this collection offers a snapshot of Anglo-French relations across the three centuries from established historians and younger scholars from France Britain and Luxembourg. Based broadly on 'diplomatic' history but incorporating wider perspectives from cultural and social or gender history; each essay uncovers the fascinating and complex arrangements that characterize Anglo-French relations in this period. Competition and hostility between the two kingdoms there certainly was but it took a surprising variety of forms and often proved intellectually productive for one side or the other and sometimes for both. The chapters mix treatments of broad themes and particular circumstances or individuals and each makes specific comparisons with French and English experience across the early-modern period. In so doing they elaborate and go beyond the evidence of Anglo-French hostility to explore evidence of political co-operation and cultural influences highlighting just how close early modern England's connections with France were even at times of crisis. | 'The Contending Kingdoms' France and England 1420–1700

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Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

This book is an introduction to French phenomenology in the post-1945 period. While many of phenomenology’s greatest thinkers—Husserl Heidegger Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—wrote before this period Steven DeLay introduces and assesses the creative and important turn phenomenology took after these figures. He presents a clear and rigorous introduction to the work of relatively unfamiliar and underexplored philosophers including Jean-Louis Chrétien Michel Henry Jean-Yves Lacoste Jean-Luc Marion and others. After an introduction setting out the crucial Husserlian and Heideggerian background to French phenomenology DeLay explores Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy Henry’s material phenomenology Marion’s phenomenology of givenness Lacoste’s phenomenology of liturgical man Chrétien’s phenomenology of the call Claude Romano’s evential hermeneutics and Emmanuel Falque’s phenomenology of the borderlands. Starting with the reception of Husserl and Heidegger in France DeLay explains how this phenomenological thought challenges boundaries between philosophy and theology. Taking stock of its promise in light of the legacy it has transformed DeLay concludes with a summary of the field’s relevance to theology and analytic philosophy and indicates what the future holds for phenomenology. Phenomenology in France: A Philosophical and Theological Introduction is an excellent resource for all students and scholars of phenomenology and continental philosophy and will also be useful to those in related disciplines such as theology literature and French studies. | Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

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Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France Medicine and Literature

Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France Medicine and Literature

In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls supposedly brought on by their exposure to lascivious images titillating novels and lewd conversations was the source of an increasing moral and physical degeneration. In how-to hygiene books intended for parents the medical community declared that the only cure for this obviously involuntary departure from the natural path of sexual development was the increased surveillance of young girls. As these treatises by vitalist and vitalist-inspired physiologists became increasingly common in the 1760s McAlpin shows so too did the presence of young vulnerable and virginal heroines in the era's novels. Analyzing novels by among others Jean-Jacques Rousseau Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos she offers physiologically based readings of many of the period's most famous heroines within the context of an eighteenth-century discourse on women and heterosexual desire that broke with earlier periods in recasting female and male desire as qualitatively distinct. Her study persuasively argues that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious nebulous force-Freud's dark continent-has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century. | Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France Medicine and Literature

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Doctors Bureaucrats and Public Health in France 1888-1902

Doctors Bureaucrats and Public Health in France 1888-1902

Originally published in 1987 Doctors Bureaucrats and Public Health in France focuses on crucial period of 1888-1902 arguably considered the creation of the modern medical system in France. Scientific developments demographic and political concerns sparked unprecedented period of government action concerning medical care. The nature of the resulting legislation was largely determined by a new medical union movement promoting the professional goals of private physicians. The book focuses on the formation of the physicians Union movement and its role within medical legislation as well as its effect on other public health programs. It also focuses on the interplay of professional concerns and political issues which together describe the medical politics of the era. | Doctors Bureaucrats and Public Health in France 1888-1902

GBP 31.99
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Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France 1789–1914

Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France 1789–1914

Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Contributors analyze portraits of men in domestic and studio spaces in France during the long nineteenth century; the preponderance of such portraits alone supports the book's premise that the alignment of men with public life is oversimplified and more myth than reality. The volume offers analysis of works by a mix of artists from familiar names such as David Delacroix Courbet Manet Rodin and Matisse to less well-known image makers including Dominique Doncre Constance Mayer Anders Zorn and Lucien-Etienne Melingue. The essays cover a range of media from paintings and prints to photographs and sculpture that allows exploration of the relation between masculinity and interiority across the visual culture of the period. The home and other interior spaces emerge from these studies as rich and complex locations for both masculine self-expression and artistic creativity. Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France 1789-1914 provides a much-needed rethinking of modern masculinity in this period. | Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France 1789–1914

GBP 48.99
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Footrest, CLICK SYSTEM, resin and steel, outdoor

Footrest, CLICK SYSTEM, resin and steel, outdoor

Footrest, CLICK SYSTEM, resin and steel, outdoor : Dimensions: 39 x 56 x 50 cm (height x depth x width). This article is delivered assembled: no assembly is required. HOUE is a Danish company founded in 2007 whose mission is to make affordable luxury while benefiting the talent of Danish designers. Today, HOUE offers an outdoor collection of quality, rooted in the Scandinavian design tradition. CLICK is a collection of outdoor furniture consisting of Dining chairs, Sunbeds, Rocking chair, Lounge chair, Position chair and Footrests. CLICK is made in intelligent plastic lamellas, combined with metal (epoxy powder coated) and sustainable high quality bamboo. The components of the lamella are carefully selected, to give to the lamellas the appropriate resistance and a sweet flexibility, for maximum comfort. THE CLICK CONCEPT provides you excellent cushion free comfort. The lamellas come in 12 different colors and they can be clicked (or unclicked) to change the look of the chair,

GBP 128.96
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Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

This title was first published in 2003. Few historians would deny that Louis XIV's France dominated the political cultural and military landscape of late seventeenth century Europe. Yet the financial foundations on which French hegemony were based remain open to question. Traditionally the regime has been viewed as the archetypal centralizing monarchy in which warfare was the main motor driving reform. Yet recent research has pointed to a more subtle interpretation in which power was negotiated and interests balanced between the crown and members of the elite. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war Louis in return stabilised many of the structures on which the elite stood entrenched elements of privilege throughout the political landscape and devolved power to provincial institutions. Especially with the participation of privileged corps as financial intermediaries the politics of war finance in the last twenty five years of Louis' reign profoundly influenced the direction in which absolutism developed through the remainder of the Old Regime. The book situates the period 1688 to 1715 as a crucial stage in the development of absolutism; tying the choices available to Louis XIV with the structures and institutions that he inherited from his predecessors while setting his approach apart. By also measuring the impact of financial negotiations between crown and corps on the later state it is argued that absolutism under Louis was neither ossified nor in crisis as the latter half of his reign is often described but rather dynamic and flexible as it sought to meet the financial costs of warfare. | Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715

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James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors. Suzanne M. Singletary maintains that Whistler was in a unique situation as an insider within the emerging French avant-garde thereby in an enviable position to both absorb and transform the innovations of others – and that until now his widespread influence as a catalyst among his colleagues has been neither investigated nor appreciated. Singletary contends that Whistler’s importance rivals that of Manet whose multi-layered (and often unexpected) interconnections with Whistler are the focus of one chapter. In addition Whistler’s pivotal role in linking the legacies of Baudelaire Delacroix Gautier Wagner and other mid-century innovators to the later French Symbolists has previously been largely ignored. Courbet Degas Monet and Seurat complete the roster of French artists whose dialogue with Whistler is highlighted. | James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

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National Regeneration in Vichy France Ideas and Policies 1930–1944

National Regeneration in Vichy France Ideas and Policies 1930–1944

The creators of the Vichy regime did not intend merely to shield France from the worst effects of military defeat and occupation; rather the leaders of Vichy were inspired by a will to regenerate France to establish an authoritarian new order that would repair the degenerative effects of parliamentary democracy and liberal society. Their plan to effect this change took the form of a far-reaching programme they called the National Revolution. This is the first study of the National Revolution as the expression of Vichy's ideology and aims. It reveals the variety and complexity of both right wing and other strands of French thought in the context of the turbulent years of the 1930s - when Vichy's history really begins - and under the Occupation when internal rivalries and divisions as well as the pressures of war doomed Vichy's programme of national regeneration. The book is structured around a consideration of the rhetoric of right-wing ideology and such key catchwords as 'decadence' 'action' 'order' 'realism' and 'new man' and shows how these phrases only served to mask the political and ideological incoherence of the Vichy government. | National Regeneration in Vichy France Ideas and Policies 1930–1944

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