Republican identities in war and peace : representations of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Antoine Prost ; translated by Jay Winter and Helen McPhail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prost, Antoine, 1933-

Series:

Legacy of the Great War

The legacy of the Great War

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--History--1914-1940.

France.

History.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France--History--19th century.

France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.

Summary:

Antoine Prost is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France. For the first time his seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with his classic account of war memorials, through to his pioneering study of the Rue de la Goutte d'Or, and finally his work on French Catholic families in the 1930s and 1940s, this book expertly takes us through republican representations of war and peace, urban spaces and social identity, and discourse and social conflict in republican France. Among this range of topics, Prost considers the notion of neighborhood and quartier, the multiple uses of myth, the secularization of religious imagery, the centrality of primary schools in French political culture, and insults as staples of French political rhetoric. Included here are his famous essays "Verdun" and "War Memorials of the Great War, " which have been hailed as indispensable additions to the study of European cultural history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859736211

1859736262

OCLC:

50228437