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France in the Age of Organization
Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Inbunden, 2011
1936 kr
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In interwar France, there was a growing sense that ‘organization’ was the solution to the nation’s perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization …
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police, …
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France’s transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States’ attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded …
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007
The Geopolitical Imperative
Häftad, 2011
618 kr
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In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive …
French Intellectuals Against the Left
The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s
Av Michael Scott Christofferson
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant …
French Intellectuals Against the Left
The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s
Av Michael Scott Christofferson
Inbunden, 2004
915 kr
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In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant …
Sartre Against Stalinism
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard …
Sartre Against Stalinism
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard …
Populist Challenge
Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France
Av Jens Rydgren
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic nationalism and xenophobia as well as an opposition against the …
Populist Challenge
Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France
Av Jens Rydgren
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic nationalism and xenophobia as well as an opposition against the …
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity. It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual formation and processes of …
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities
Häftad, 2005
454 kr
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Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity. It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual formation and processes of …
General de Gaulle's Cold War
Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and comprehensive challenge to the United State’s leadership of the Free World, tackling not only the political but …
France in the Age of Organization
Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Häftad, 2013
543 kr
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In interwar France, there was a growing sense that ‘organization’ was the solution to the nation’s perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization …
At Home in Postwar France
Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for …
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Häftad, 2014
526 kr
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The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France’s transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States’ attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded …
General de Gaulle's Cold War
Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68
Häftad, 2015
532 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and comprehensive challenge to the United State's leadership of the Free World, tackling not only the political but …
National Policy, Global Memory
The Commemoration of the a Righteousa From Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of "Righteous among the Nations" to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own …
Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Inbunden, 2019
1916 kr
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The history of eugenics has traditionally been associated with genetics and biology. In this path-breaking book, Paul-André Rosental thoroughly revises this interpretation by showing that eugenics was just as closely connected to the history of psychology. Far from disappearing after the defeat of …
Candle and the Guillotine
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93
Inbunden, 2020
1979 kr
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As in a number of France’s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions. Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial …
At Home in Postwar France
Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
Häftad, 2020
543 kr
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After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers — arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for …
Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Häftad, 2027
406 kr
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The history of eugenics has traditionally been associated with genetics and biology. In this path-breaking book, Paul-André Rosental thoroughly revises this interpretation by showing that eugenics was just as closely connected to the history of psychology. Far from disappearing after the defeat of …
Candle and the Guillotine
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789-93
Häftad, 2025
397 kr
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As in a number of France’s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions. Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial …
Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815
Av Henry Heller
Inbunden, 2006
1979 kr
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In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William …
God's Eugenicist
Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline
Inbunden, 2006
1921 kr
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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the …
Shades of Indignation
Political Scandals in France, Past and Present
Inbunden, 2007
1979 kr
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At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siècle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or …
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Inbunden, 2009
2117 kr
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of …
Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815
Av Henry Heller
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William …
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Häftad, 2010
618 kr
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of …
