France, 1848-1945: Taste and corruption
Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
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Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
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A History of French Passions Volume 4: Taste and Corruuption
Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
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Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : William James Adams |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815719762 |
At the end of World War II, experts on both sides of the Atlantic believed that France was doomed to economic stagnation. French culture and institutions, they argued, inhibited the changes in economic structure that sustained growth would require. But in spite of these predictions and the occasional volatility of the world economy, the French economy grew rapidly. Only the Japanese, of the major economies, has grown faster, and by 1975 the French standard of living matched that of West Germany. Restructuring the French Economy looks at the four decades of the structural changes that fostered growth and explores explanations of why such changes occurred. Drawing on many and diverse primary materials, including government statistics, judicial decisions, and professional memoirs, Adams examines three different explanations of France's postwar economic success. The first downplays the extent of structural change during the surge of growth. The second emphasizes the importance of government policies to compensate for inadequate private initiative. The third suggests that European economic integration and French decolonization created enough market competition to push the private sector into its own restructuring. Adams stresses that if government initiatives worked well, they did so in an environment of strong market competition; if competition seemed to work wonders, it occurred only as a result of government actions. He also devotes considerable attention to the implications of his findings for U.S. policy concerning European protectionism and the health and growth of American industries.
Author | : Thomas Hoobler |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316052531 |
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets -- all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time -- the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520221680 |
"An exciting, innovative, and significant work. The author points to how the crowd experience transcended class and gender divisions and was transformed from acts of collective violence into acts of collective consumption."—Michael B. Miller, author of Shanghai on the Métro
Author | : David Macey |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1844677737 |
Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libération Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional violence from the French forces. He identified closely with the liberation movement, and his political sympathies eventually forced him out the country, whereupon he became a propagandist and ambassador for the FLN, as well as a seminal anticolonial theorist. David Macey’s eloquent life of Fanon provides a comprehensive account of a complex individual’s personal, intellectual and political development. It is also a richly detailed depiction of postwar French culture. Fanon is revealed as a flawed and passionate humanist deeply committed to eradicating colonialism. Now updated with new historical material, Frantz Fanon remains the definitive biography of a truly revolutionary thinker.
Author | : George Robb |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1999-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403934312 |
This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of the 'New Man', the 'New Woman' and the 'Third Sex'.