Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An Abstract of the Example of France
Author: Arthur YoungAn Abstract of the Example of France a Warning to Britain. By Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S.
Author: Arthur YoungThe Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France
Author: Oana SaboPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620560X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century "migrant literature" has become central to criticism and publishing. Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Henri Lopès, Andreï Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée, the Académie française, publishing houses, and online reviewers), Sabo argues that these texts are best understood as cultural commodities that mediate between literary and economic forms of value, academic and mass readerships, and national and global literary markets. By examining the latest literary texts and cultural agents not yet subjected to sufficient critical study, Sabo contributes to contemporary literature, cultural history, migration studies, and literary sociology.
France and the American Civil War
Author: Stève SainlaudePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France. Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.
Abstract of the ... Report of the French National Productivity Committee
Author: France. Comité national de la productivitéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Modern French Philosophy
Author: Vincent DescombesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296724
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A critical introduction to modern French philosoophy, from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners.
The Military Enlightenment
Author: Christy L. PichicheroPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
The Right to Difference
Author: Maurice SamuelsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639705X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The revolution reconsidered -- France's Jewish star -- Universalism in Algeria -- Zola and the Dreyfus affair -- The Jew in Renoir's La grande illusion -- Sartre's "Jewish question"--Finkielkraut, Badiou, and the "new antisemitism" -- Conclusion: "Je suis juif
The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870
Author: Karen OffenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107188083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past, focused on contesting and defending masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men.
Author: George Washington