Crime Madness And Politics In Modern France

Author : Robert A. Nye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400856275

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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France by Robert A. Nye Pdf

Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert A. Nye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 060804640X

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Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France by Robert A. Nye Pdf

Author : Professor Sean M Quinlan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479949

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The Great Nation in Decline by Professor Sean M Quinlan Pdf

This book studies how doctors responded to – and helped shape – deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation; a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. Moreover, it is shown how doctors imparted biomedical ideas and language that allowed lay people to make sense of often bewildering socio-political changes, thereby giving them a sense of agency and control over these events. Combining a chronological and thematic approach, the six chapters in this book trace how doctors began their medical crusade during the middle of the Enlightenment, how this activism flowered during the French Revolution, and how they then revised their views during the period of post-revolutionary reaction. The study concludes by arguing that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

Author : Robert A. Nye
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520215108

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Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France by Robert A. Nye Pdf

In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice. In doing so, Nye destabilizes and historicizes the male body, and incorporates gender into the brand of cultural history inaugurated by Norbert Elias in the 1930s.

Author : K. Steven Vincent,Alison Klairmont-Lingo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461644385

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The Human Tradition in Modern France by K. Steven Vincent,Alison Klairmont-Lingo Pdf

The Human Tradition in Modern France gives a human perspective of the history of France from 1789 to the present, revealed in essays that highlight individuals and intriguing events that too often have been lost under labels and statistics. Students will gain an understanding of the humor and passion in French history from these new, original essays by well-established scholars. This collection also relates the individuals, events, and controversies to current historiographical debates. The Human Tradition in Modern France is an excellent supplementary text for courses on French history and is also useful for courses in world history and Western Civilization.

Author : Robert A. Nye
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520215109

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Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France by Robert A. Nye Pdf

In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice. In doing so, Nye destabilizes and historicizes the male body, and incorporates gender into the brand of cultural history inaugurated by Norbert Elias in the 1930s.

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455644

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Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought by Christopher John Murray Pdf

In this wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought, leading scholars offer an authoritative multi-disciplinary analysis of one of the most distinctive and influential traditions in modern thought. Unlike any other existing work, this important work covers not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines, including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more.

Author : Peter Zinoman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520224124

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The Colonial Bastille by Peter Zinoman Pdf

"Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies."—David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 "This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book."—Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

Author : Adam D. Zientek
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228019954

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A Thirst for Wine and War by Adam D. Zientek Pdf

Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, making the men more willing to endure suffering and boredom. The army also supplied soldiers with doses of distilled alcohol just before attacks to increase their ferocity and fearlessness. This strategic distribution of alcohol was a defining feature of French soldiers’ experiences of the war and amounted to an experimental policy of intoxicating soldiers for military ends. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s emotional and behavioural conditioning of soldiers through the distribution of a mind-altering drug that was later hailed as one of the army’s “fathers of victory.” The daily wine ration arose from an unexpected set of factors including the demoralization of trench warfare, the wine industry’s fear of losing its main consumers, and medical consensus about the benefits of wine drinking. The army’s related practice of distributing distilled alcohol to embolden soldiers was a double-edged sword, as the men might become unruly. The army implemented regulations and surveillance networks to curb men’s drinking behind the lines, in an attempt to ensure they only drank when it was useful to the war effort. When morale collapsed in spring 1917, the army lost control of this precarious system as drunken soldiers mutinied in the thousands. Discipline was restored only when the army regained command of soldiers’ alcohol consumption. Drawing on a range of archives, personal narratives, and trench journals, A Thirst for Wine and War shows how the French army’s intoxication of its soldiers constituted a unique exercise of biopower deployed on a mass scale.

Author : Todd Samuel Presner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135982256

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Muscular Judaism by Todd Samuel Presner Pdf

Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.

Author : Janet Regina Horne
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0822327929

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A Social Laboratory for Modern France by Janet Regina Horne Pdf

DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div

Author : Thomas J. Kehoe,Jeffrey E. Pfeifer
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801176989

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History & Crime by Thomas J. Kehoe,Jeffrey E. Pfeifer Pdf

Revealing the cross utility potential of multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in crime studies, History & Crime showcases new research into crime from across the interdisciplinary perspectives of early modern and modern history, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies.

Author : Lee Michael-Berger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000874747

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Modern Murders by Lee Michael-Berger Pdf

Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.

Author : Gino Raymond
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810862562

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Historical Dictionary of France by Gino Raymond Pdf

From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.

Author : E. Claire Cage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009198332

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The Science of Proof by E. Claire Cage Pdf

An insightful analysis of the rise of forensic medicine in modern France and doctors' authority in the legal arena.