02939nam 22005774a 450 991095710020332120200520144314.097803130127850313012784(CKB)111087027039352(OCoLC)603719344(CaPaEBR)ebrary10023105(SSID)ssj0000119465(PQKBManifestationID)11132345(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119465(PQKBWorkID)10073526(PQKB)10482982(Au-PeEL)EBL3000798(CaPaEBR)ebr10023105(OCoLC)53029118(MiAaPQ)EBC3000798(Perlego)4202595(EXLCZ)9911108702703935220011206d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCertain ideas of France essays on French history and civilization /H.L. Wesseling ; foreword by Eugen Weber1st ed.Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press20021 online resource (xvi, 205 pages)Contributions to the study of world history,0885-9159 ;no. 98Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780313323416 0313323410 Includes bibliographical references and index.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".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.Contributions to the study of world history ;no. 98.FranceCivilization20th century944.081Wesseling H. L253946MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957100203321Certain ideas of France4354634UNINA