| France Contributor(s): Baycroft, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0340705701 ISBN-13: 9780340705704 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $42.52 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 Annotation: National identity, especially in France, is often presented as a static, unchanging image which has gradually been accepted and internalized by the population. This book seeks first of all to demonstrate the elasticity and diversity that can be found within the single concept of French identity, and to trace the process by which it was created and has evolved through a process of continual recreation and reinvention over the two hundred years since the French Revolution. It explores the complex task of creating unity while reconciling diversity, be it regional, religious, or cultural. Themes such as gender, colonialism and decolonization, material and popular culture, the devastation of war, the rise of the EU and globalization, are examined in light of the evolution and continual reinvention of the nation and French identity. This new study will be of interest not only to students of modern and contemporary France, but also to those who are interested in the ways in which national identities are created and interact with modern society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2009275433 |
| Series: Inventing the Nation (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study of France examines the nation-building process of continual re-creation and re-invention over more than two hundred years. It explores the complex task of creating unity while reconciling diversity, be it regional, religious or cultural, in a nation profoundly divided since the Revolution. Divided into three sections covering the invention of French history, experience and identity, it seeks to integrate more conventional political history with an examination of nation-building from the margins and through manifold images and representations of the nation. Themes such as social conflict, civil war and revolution, identity and difference, gender, colonialism and decolonization, religion, material and popular culture, and the devastation of war are examined in light of the evolution and continual reinvention of France. This new study will be of interest not only to students of modern and contemporary France, but also to those who want to understand the ways in which national identities are created and evolve within modern society. |