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Roxanne Panchasi - Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars - 9780801446702 - V9780801446702
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Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars

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Description for Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 485.

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 alternately unsettling and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks were seen as traces in the present of a future world, its technologies, and its possible transformations. In Future Tense, Roxanne Panchasi illuminates both the anxieties and the hopes of a period when many French people-traumatized by what their country had already suffered-seemed determined to anticipate and shape the future.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801446702
SKU
V9780801446702
Shipping Time
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About Roxanne Panchasi
Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews for Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars
Investigating the impact of 'collective anticipation' on society, Panchasi successfully turns memory on its head, exploring how expectations of the future became manifested in public projects, ambitions and discourses during the interwar years.... This study is a solid and informative piece of work, which paints a vivid picture of the cultural and technological expectations facing interwar French society. Forcing the ... Read more

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