Certain ideas of France : essays on French history and civilization / H.L. Wesseling ; foreword by Eugen Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesseling, H. L.

Series:

Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 98.

Contributions to the study of world history, 0885-9159 ; no. 98

Standardized Title:

Vele ideeën over Frankrijk. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Civilization--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wesseling, one of the Netherlands' most respected contemporary historians, offers a great variety of studies and essays on modern French history and historians. The work is unique in its combination of biographical and structural approaches.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Culture and Society

1. Ary Scheffer and His Time

2. The Paris of Emile Zola

3. Pierre de Coubertin: Sport and Ideology in the Third Republic, 1870-1914

4. Commotion at the Sorbonne: The Debate on the French University, 1910-1914

Part II. Intellectuals and Politics

5. Reluctant Crusaders: French Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair

6. Robert Brasillach and the Temptation of Fascism

7. An Intellectual in Politics: Raymond Aron, 1905-1983

Part III. Politics and Diplomacy

8. Constants in French Foreign Policy

9. Was de Gaulle Right?

10. Charles de Gaulle and Charles Peguy: A Certain Idea of France

Part IV. History and Historians

11. Gabriel Hanotaux: An Historian in Politics

12. The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary History: The First Fifty Years

13. Fernand Braudel: Historian of the "Longue Duree".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780313012785

0313012784

OCLC:

603719344