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Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Kristin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, French.
- Political and social views.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Decolonization.
- France--Civilization--1945-.
- France.
- Civilization.
- Decolonization--France--History--20th century.
- Technology--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Popular culture--France--History--20th century.
- France--Civilization--American influences.
- Racism--France.
- Racism.
- French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Authors, French--20th century--Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- 'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies' examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one.
- Notes:
- "An October book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262181614
- OCLC:
- 30544442
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