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11%OFFSudhir Hazareesingh - The Saint-Napoleon - 9780674013414 - V9780674013414
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The Saint-Napoleon

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Description for The Saint-Napoleon Hardcover. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a work that opens up broader questions about the nature of the French state, unity and lines of fracture in society. Num Pages: 322 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 599.

In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's national day. Leading up to the creation of the Second Empire, this was the first in a series of attempts to "Bonapartize" his regime and strengthen its popular legitimacy. Across France, public institutions sought to draw local citizens together to celebrate civic ideals of unity, order, and patriotism. But the new sense of French togetherness was fraught with tensions.

Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674013414
SKU
V9780674013414
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About Sudhir Hazareesingh
Sudhir Hazareesingh is Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Balliol College, Oxford University.

Reviews for The Saint-Napoleon
An excellent work, original and engagingly written. The importance of this book on Saint-Napoleon's day is that it manages time and again to link national themes to the varieties of local experience, social and political. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of the Second Empire and the many contradictions that beset it. This is a rare book, at once learned ... Read more

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