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Recollections of France : memories, identities and heritage in contemporary France / edited by Sarah Blowen, Marion Demossier and Jeanine Picard.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary France (Providence, R.I.) ; v. 4.
- Contemporary France ; 4
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--20th century--Congresses.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the Revolution in 1989 and can be interpreted as part of a re-examinaton of what it means to be French in the context of ongoing Europeanization. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France, who are working in the fields of museology, heritage and cultural production. Addressing subjects such as war and memory, gastronomy and regional identity, maritime culture and urban societies, they throw fresh light on the process by which France has been conceptualized and packaged as a cultural object.
- Contents:
- RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST; RECALLING THE PASTAND RECREATING IT; WAR MUSEUMS IN FRANCE; PUBLIC HISTORY AND THEHISTORIAL PROJECT, 19861998; LEST WE FORGET; CONSTRUCTION OF A BRETONMARITIME HERITAGE; HERITAGE AND HISTORY; HIDDEN REEFS; CULINARY HERITAGE ANDPRODUITS DE TERROIRIN FRANCE; A MARKET CULTURE; PRODUITS DE TERROIR; FAST FORWARD TO THE FUTURE?; PUBLIC POLICY AND URBANCULTURES IN FRANCE; THE MEAN(ING OF THE) STREETS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Based on papers from a one-day conference, Recollections of France: the past, heritage and memories, held Dec. 15, 1997, London.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-254) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781571817280
- 157181728X
- 9781571814999
- 157181499X
- 9781782389880
- 1782389881
- OCLC:
- 994873529
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