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The cult of the nation in France : inventing nationalism, 1680-1800 / David A. Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, David A. (David Avrom)
- Series:
- ACLS Fellows’ publications.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--France--History.
- Nationalism.
- French language--Political aspects.
- French language.
- National characteristics, French.
- France--Politics and government--17th century.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
- Other Title:
- Inventing nationalism, 1680-1800
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2003, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.
- Contents:
- The national and the sacred The politics of patriotism and national sentiment English barbarians, French martyrs National memory and the canon of great Frenchmen National character and the republican imagination National language and the revolutionary crucible
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674261983
- 0674261984
- 9780674020726
- 0674020723
- OCLC:
- 923111013
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06678 hdl
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