Defeated flesh

Welfare, warfare and the making of modern France

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit.. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719081262

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Bertrand Taithe is Senior Lecturer in French and British history at the University of Huddersfield

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1:Memories of wars: 1870-1871Chapter 2: L'annee terrible: The war, the revolution and the Commune of Paris.Chapter 3: Medicine, war and the revolution in ParisChapter 4: The 'Giant Hospital': military medicine in besieged Paris.Chapter 5: The politics of care and order.Chapter 6: Revolutionary society and medicineChapter 7:The dynamics of humanitarianism and the making of the Red CrossChapter 8: The severed limbs of the nationChapter 9: Seeds of defeat: alcohol and syphillisChapter 10: Conclusion. War stories.