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Rethinking France
Pierre Nora
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Description for Rethinking France
Hardcover. Documents the history and culture of France. This book covers French manners, mores, and society. It concerns with conversation, cafes, songs, wine, gallantry, and places imbued with national symbolism such as Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur cathedrals. Translator(s): Jordan, David Peter. Num Pages: 480 pages, 126 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1179.
The third volume of Pierre Nora's monumental work documenting the history and culture of France turns to French manners, mores, and society. While previous volumes focused on specific historical events, people, and institutions within France, the essays in "Legacies" are concerned with the kinds of things that make up the heart of French culture: conversation, cafes, songs, wine, gallantry, and places imbued with national symbolism such as Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur cathedrals. Linking these diverse topics together is the idea of patrimony - a term used by the French to designate the collective culture of the country or its ... Read more
The third volume of Pierre Nora's monumental work documenting the history and culture of France turns to French manners, mores, and society. While previous volumes focused on specific historical events, people, and institutions within France, the essays in "Legacies" are concerned with the kinds of things that make up the heart of French culture: conversation, cafes, songs, wine, gallantry, and places imbued with national symbolism such as Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur cathedrals. Linking these diverse topics together is the idea of patrimony - a term used by the French to designate the collective culture of the country or its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226591346
SKU
V9780226591346
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About Pierre Nora
Pierre Nora is editorial director at Editions Gallimard. Since 1977 he has been directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en science sociales. He has directed the editorial work on Les Lieux de memoire since 1984. David P. Jordan is the LAS Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Transforming ... Read more
Reviews for Rethinking France
"The grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret, and celebrate the French fascination with their own past." - Los Angeles Times "A magnificent achievement.... It is not only a work of history, it is also something of a historical document itself." - New Republic"