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Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross.

Van Pelt Library DC33.7 .R65 1995
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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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