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Future tense : the culture of anticipation in France between the wars / Roxanne Panchasi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panchasi, Roxanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Intellectual life--20th century.
- France.
- France--Social life and customs--20th century.
- France--History--1914-1940.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- "The Future": A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
- Machines for Being
- The City of the Future
- The Next War
- The Future Is a Foreign Country
- The International Language of the Future
- The Future's Remains
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-6025-5
- OCLC:
- 726824303
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