LEADER 04278nam 2200649 450 001 9910787842603321 005 20230803032338.0 010 $a1-5017-5818-7 010 $a1-60909-080-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758188 035 $a(CKB)2670000000560626 035 $a(EBL)3382560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001107616 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12414574 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107616 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11081992 035 $a(PQKB)11605914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382560 035 $a(OCoLC)867741336 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10950044 035 $a(OCoLC)923310849 035 $a(DE-B1597)571101 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758188 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000560626 100 $a20141015h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aYears of plenty, years of want $eFrance and the legacy of the Great War /$fBenjamin Franklin Martin ; Shaun Allshouse, design 210 1$aDeKalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2013. 210 4$d©2013 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-87580-468-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface and Ac knowledgments""; ""1a???July 1914""; ""2a???Georgesa???The Defiant""; ""3a???The Thibaults""; ""4a???Shifting Ground""; ""5a???Edouarda???The Hesitant""; ""6a???August 1939""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 $aThe Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead were more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million, overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties. The decade and a half before the war had been years of plenty, a time of increasing prosperity and confidence remembered as the Belle Epoque or the good old days. The two decades that followed its end were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory. In 1939, France went to war dreading defeat.To explain the burden of winning the Great War and embracing the collapse that followed, Benjamin Martin examines the national mood and daily life of France in July 1914 and August 1939, the months that preceded the two world wars. He presents two titans: Georges Clemenceau, defiant and steadfast, who rallied a dejected nation in 1918, and Edouard Daladier,hesitant and irresolute, who espoused appeasement in 1938 though comprehending its implications. He explores novels by a constellation of celebrated French writers who treated the Great War and its social impact, from Colette to Irène Némirovsky, from François Mauriac to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And he devotes special attention to Roger Martin du Gard, the1937 Nobel Laureate, whose roman-fleuve The Thibaults is an unrivaled depiction of social unraveling and disillusionment.For many in France, the legacy of the Great War was the vow to avoid any future war no matter what the cost. They cowered behind the Maginot Line, the fortifications along the eastern border designed to halt any future German invasion. Others knew that cost would be too great and defended the "Descartes Line": liberty and truth, the declared values of French civilization. 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To study dimensions of place, the book explores two working landscapes: 1) Scranton, Pennsylvania, an undermined, former coal-mining city, and 2) Marywood University, a Scranton institution that confronts the aftermath of mining. Scranton and Marywood have endured the narrative of extraction that the Anthracite Region once celebrated. Recounting removal of parts of this place to feed other places, the story defines loss here as gain there: the city and college have suffered but the United States has grown stronger. The tale ends badly, however, because the narrative arcs toward exhaustion; the storyline offers little about renewal. Growing up with this narrative, Scrantonians have been fleeing the city for decades; the dominant trend among young people has long been to learn here to move elsewhere. Too few environmental humanists have sufficiently examined the primary place where many work: the university. When they do, they often do not link the university to its local, regional, and national environmental contexts. In exploring where Conlogue teaches, he shows how bound up places of learning are with unsettling sites of resource extraction. Defending the study of literature and history, "On the Measures" shows university students that the disciplines they study are parts of an interdisciplinary web of meaning that includes the contexts of the places where they learn"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere. Once dominated by the boom-and-busts of coal mining, the valley's shared history touches communities as far-flung as the Pacific Northwest, the Gulf Coast shorelines, and the mountains of West Virginia. Bill Conlogue explores how two overlapping coal country landscapes--Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Marywood University--have coped with the devastating aftermath of mining. Examining the far-reaching environmental effects of mining, including heavy deforestation, geological disruption, and mine fires, this beautifully written book asks bigger questions about what it means to influence a landscape to this extent--and then to live in it. In prose rivaling that of Annie Dillard and John McPhee, Conlogue describes a fascinating paradox: because of coal mining, the city and college have suffered, but the United States has grown stronger. Examining higher education through the lens of an unstable region still reeling from its industrial heritage, Undermined in Coal Country defends the study of literature and history as parts of an interdisciplinary web of meaning. 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