Problems in French history / edited by Martyn Cornick and Ceri Crossley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornick, Martyn.

Crossley, Ceri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Civilization.

France.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 Catherine de' Medici: Saint or Sinner? / Robert J. Knecht 1

2 Protestantism and Jacobinism in the Department of the Aveyron, 1789-1815 / Peter M. Jones 17

3 Chalk and Cheese or Bread and Butter: Political Culture and Ecology in the Seine-Inferieure during the Napoleonic Period / John Dunne 31

4 Getting out the Vote: Electoral Participation in France, 1789-1851 / Malcolm Crook 50

5 A Forgotten Socialist and Feminist: Ange Guepin / Pamela Pilbeam 64

6 Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-century France / Ceri Crossley 81

7 Religion and Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-century France / Brian Jenkins 104

8 Distorting Mirrors: Problems of French-British Perception in the Fin-de-Siecle / Martyn Cornick 125

9 After Dreyfus and before the Entente: Patrick Geddes's Cultural Diplomacy at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 / Sian Reynolds 149

10 A Left-wing Intellectual of the 1890s: Georges Clemenceau / David R. Watson 168

11 Seduction and Sedition: Otto Abetz and the French, 1918-40 / Nicholas Atkin 180

12 Les Annees noires? Clandestine Dancing in Occupied France / Robert Gildea 197

13 Opening Pandora's Box: the Case of Femmes tondues / Claire Duchen 213

14 Contemplating French Roots / H. R. Kedward 233

15 From Greater France to Outer Suburbs: Postcolonial Minorities and the Republican Tradition / Alec G. Hargreaves 249

16 Angels on the Point of a Needle: Counting Catholics in France and Spain / Maurice Larkin 264

17 The Rule of Memory and the Historian's Craft in Contemporary France / Francois Bedarida 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

033375381X

0312237804

OCLC:

44132979