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UNINA9910465779103321 |
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Autore |
Murray-Miller Gavin |
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The cult of the modern : trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity / / Gavin Murray-Miller |
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Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Collana |
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France Overseas : Studies in Empire and Decolonization |
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HIS013000HIS001030HIS037060 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
France Relations Algeria |
Algeria Relations France |
Algeria Colonization History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: The Cult of the Modern in the Nineteenth Century -- Imagining the Modern Community -- State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist Modernity -- Civilizing and Nationalizing -- The Crucible of Modern Society -- Old Ends and New Means -- Republican Government and Political Modernization -- Toward the Trans-Mediterranean Republic -- Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. The Cult of the Modern argues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather than a creation of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. This analysis contests the predominant Parisian and metropolitan contexts that have traditionally framed French modernity studies, noting the important role that |
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