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Autore |
Wesseling H. L |
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Titolo |
Certain ideas of France : essays on French history and civilization / / H.L. Wesseling ; foreword by Eugen Weber |
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Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages) |
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Collana |
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Contributions to the study of world history, , 0885-9159 ; ; no. 98 |
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Soggetti |
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France Civilization 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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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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". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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