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Rethinking France
Nora, Pierre, Jordan, David P
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Description for Rethinking France
Hardcover. Collects the eleven essays that consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the history of France, a country whose people are extraordinarily conscious of history and their place in it. This title looks at the medieval Grands chroniques de France and the monasteries and chancelleries that produced them. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre. Num Pages: 504 pages, 77 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 174 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1138.
The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the history of France, a country whose people are extraordinarily conscious of history and their place in it. Distinguished contributors look at the medieval Grands chroniques de France and the monasteries and chancelleries that produced them, the establishment of Versailles as a historical museum, and Pierre Larousse's Grand dictionnaire, an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays of this title range in ... Read more
The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the history of France, a country whose people are extraordinarily conscious of history and their place in it. Distinguished contributors look at the medieval Grands chroniques de France and the monasteries and chancelleries that produced them, the establishment of Versailles as a historical museum, and Pierre Larousse's Grand dictionnaire, an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays of this title range in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226591353
SKU
V9780226591353
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About Nora, Pierre, Jordan, David P
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"