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

• Autore: Wesseling H. L
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages)
• Disciplina: 944.081
• Soggetto geografico: France Civilization 20th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Certain ideas of France
• ISBN: 9780313012785; 0313012784
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910957100203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to the study of world history ; ; no. 98.