Views from the margins : creating identities in modern France / edited and with an introduction by Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Callahan, Kevin J.

Curtis, Sarah Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, French.

Immigrants--France--History.

Immigrants.

France--Colonies--History.

France.

France--Civilization.

France--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays offers examples drawn from an imperial history of France that show the power of the periphery to shape diverse and dynamic modern French identities at its center. Each essay explains French identity as a fluid process rather than a category into which French citizens (and immigrants) are expected to fit. In using a core/periphery framework to explore identity creation, Views from the Margins breaks new ground in bringing together diverse historical topics from politics, religion, regionalism, consumerism, nationalism, and gendered aspects of civic and legal engagement

Contents:

Introduction / Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis

Missionary utopias : Anne-Marie Javouhey and the colony at Mana, French Guiana, 1827-1848 / Sarah A. Curtis

Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon : revival, missionaries, and the colonial roots of Catholic traditionalism / Jeremy Rich

Marketing in the Metropole : colonial rubber plantations and French consumerism in the early twentieth century / Stephen L. Harp

Exorcising Algeria : French citizens, the war, and the remaking of national identity in the Rhone-Alpes, 1954-1962 / Lee Whitfield

Autonomy or colony : the politics of Alsace's relationship to France in the interwar era / Samuel Huston Goodfellow

The "true" French worker party : the problem of French sectarianism and identity politics in the Second International, 1889-1900 / Kevin J. Callahan

Sex and the citizen : reproductive manuals and fashionable readers in Napoleonic France, 1799-1808 / Sean M. Quinlan

Gender and creation of the French intellectual : the case of the Revue de Morale Sociale, 1899-1903 / Anne R. Epstein

Family dramas : paternity, divorce, and adultery, 1917-1945 / Rachel G. Fuchs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The writings of William B. Cohen": p. [273]-275.

ISBN:

9786611958336

9781281958334

1281958336

9780803218765

0803218761

OCLC:

311603091