French Society

Author : Diana Holmes,Carrie Tarr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457011

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A Belle Epoque? by Diana Holmes,Carrie Tarr Pdf

The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new "seventh art" of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women’s history.

Author : Ezra N. Suleiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 069160701X

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Elites in French Society by Ezra N. Suleiman Pdf

Why do some elites survive while others do not? How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability, and change? How does a democratic society legitimize elitist institutions? Combining the use of important social theories--particularly those of Mosca, Schumpeter, Tocqueville, and Pareto--with empirical analysis, Ezra Suleiman tries to answer these questions in his examination of the dominance and stability of France's governing elites. The author draws on original survey data, historical evidence, and specialized documentary sources. His three part discussion deals, first, with the state institutions that nurture the French elite; second, with the organization, legitimization, and adaptation of the elite and its institutions; and third, with some of the policy and political implications of France's elitist system. In the final section of his book, he closely examines the relationship between elites in the public and private sectors. In his investigation of France's "state-created" elites, Professor Suleiman shows the great importance of the grandes coles in training and promoting the elites, and the grand corps in providing a base from which the elites launch themselves into extra-governmental careers. He also finds that the elites' capacity to adapt to an evolving social, political, and economic environment is a major factor in their ability to survive. Originally published in 1979. 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 : Zina Weygand
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804772389

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The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille by Zina Weygand Pdf

The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Haüy, the great benefactor of blind people. Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.

Author : Alistair Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317376958

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French Politics and Society by Alistair Cole Pdf

French Politics and Society is the ideal companion for all students of France and French politics with a strong reputation for its lucidity and lively exposition of the French polity. This third edition remains a highly readable text and offers a broad, critical and comprehensive understanding of French politics. The book provides an excellent description of French institutions and ensures readers access to background information through discussing historical developments, political forces, public policy, and the evolution of important aspects of French society. Key updates for the third edition include: extensive updates including the Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande presidencies; inclusion of constitutional and state reform coverage since 2008; the French party system and evolution of the French left and right; more on France’s positioning with regards to Brussels and the impact of the European economic crisis. French Politics and Society is essential reading for all undergraduates studying French politics, French studies, European studies or comparative politics.

Author : Cynthia Bouton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271042107

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The Flour War by Cynthia Bouton Pdf

In the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom. Prices skyrocketed, causing riots to break out in April, first in the market town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, then sweeping through the Paris Basin for the next three weeks. Known as the Flour War, or the guerre des farines, these riots are the subject of Cynthia Bouton's fascinating study. Building upon French historian George Rud&é's pioneering work, Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War, analyzing them according to class, occupation, gender, and location. As typically happened, crowds of common people (menu peuple) confronted those who controlled the grain-bakers, merchants, millers, cultivators, and local authorities. Bouton asks why women of the menu peuple were heavily represented in the riots, often assuming crucial roles as instigators and leaders. In most instances, the people did not steal the provisions but forced those they cornered to sell at a price the rioters deemed &"just.&" Bouton examines this phenomenon, known as taxation populaire, and considers the growing &"sophistication of purpose&" of rioters by placing the Flour War within the larger context of food riots in early modern Europe.

Author : Marion Demossier,David Lees,Aurélien Mondon,Nina Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317325895

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The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture by Marion Demossier,David Lees,Aurélien Mondon,Nina Parish Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities. The handbook includes contributions from the most eminent authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state-of-the art research in French Studies across disciplinary boundaries. As such, it represents an innovative as well as an authoritative survey of the field, representing an opportunity for a critical examination of the contrasts and the continuities in methodological and disciplinary orientations in a single volume. The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on French politics, society and culture.

Author : Pierre Goubert
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008023940

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The Ancien Régime by Pierre Goubert Pdf

This contains history and information about the French revolution. The society of the ancien regime is depicted as the author saw it and is offered as a handbook for facts and theory.

Author : David L. Hanley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1571813373

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Party, Society and Government by David L. Hanley Pdf

According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining historical research and contemporary political science theory about party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system, which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.

Author : David Howarth,Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781444118872

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Contemporary France by David Howarth,Georgios Varouxakis Pdf

At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0719051916

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French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799 by David Andress Pdf

This study plots a narrative course through the French Revolution examining the elements behind the breakdown of the 18th-century monarchic state. It presents a picture of the tensions throughout the revolutionary decade.

Author : Douglas Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521089611

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French Society and the Revolution by Douglas Johnson Pdf

Taken as a whole the essays in this volume illustrate the outstanding contribution made to French Revolutionary scholarship by British and American authors. Professor Johnson has selected essays which cover a wide spectrum of time, place and social class but are vitally concerned to describe and explain the social reality of revolution in its various phases. The essays fall into three main groups; the first sets the scene with studies of the social, economic and intellectual life of pre-Revolutionary France; the second studies the role of fate of certain social groups during the Revolution; and the third examines counter-revolution in two provincial areas. The editor has added an introduction and index, and some minor changes have been made to the essays. Many of these articles are already well known to professional historian and it is hoped that publication in the present form will make them available to a wider audience interested in the social experience of the most dramatic and far reaching of revolution in modern times.

Author : Steven D. Kale,Steven Kale
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0801883865

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French Salons by Steven D. Kale,Steven Kale Pdf

Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an original, penetrating, and engaging analysis of elite culture and society in France before, during, and after the Revolution.

Author : Eric Cahm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889465

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The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics by Eric Cahm Pdf

The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey - the only short modern account in English anchors the Affair in its full social and political context. Organised round a narrative of events, it offers portraits of all the main characters, substantial extracts from key sources in fresh translations, a comprehensive bibliography and a detailed chronology.

Author : Douglas William John Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:462939026

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French Society and the Revolution by Douglas William John Johnson Pdf

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781617508301

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Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord Pdf

The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.