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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808632803321

Autore

Wesseling H. L

Titolo

Certain ideas of France : essays on French history and civilization / / H.L. Wesseling ; foreword by Eugen Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002

ISBN

0-313-01278-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages)

Collana

Contributions to the study of world history, , 0885-9159 ; ; no. 98

Disciplina

944.081

Soggetti

France Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Culture and Society -- 1. Ary Scheffer and His Time -- 2. The Paris of Emile Zola -- 3. Pierre de Coubertin: Sport and Ideology in the Third Republic, 1870-1914 -- 4. Commotion at the Sorbonne: The Debate on the French University, 1910-1914 -- Part II. Intellectuals and Politics -- 5. Reluctant Crusaders: French Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair -- 6. Robert Brasillach and the Temptation of Fascism -- 7. An Intellectual in Politics: Raymond Aron, 1905-1983 -- Part III. Politics and Diplomacy -- 8. Constants in French Foreign Policy -- 9. Was de Gaulle Right? -- 10. Charles de Gaulle and Charles Peguy: A Certain Idea of France -- Part IV. History and Historians -- 11. Gabriel Hanotaux: An Historian in Politics -- 12. The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary History: The First Fifty Years -- 13. Fernand Braudel: Historian of the "Longue Duree".

Sommario/riassunto

Wesseling, one of the Netherlands' most respected contemporary historians, offers a great variety of studies and essays on modern French history and historians. The work is unique in its combination of biographical and structural approaches.