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Popular Culture in Modern France
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 157.00`Culture' is one of the most frequently used terms in the French vocabulary. It sells not only books, newspapers and magazines but also consumer products and political parties. But what are the meanings of `culture populaire'? What have the French understood by it, and what is its history? Brian Rigby's lively and cogent study traces changing notions... more...
Reading the French Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts. Through close analysis of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, she emphasizes the urgency of maintaining a dialogue between past and present, Enlightenment... more...
Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 148.00What did French intellectuals have to say about Gaullism, the Cold War colonialism, the women's movement, and the events of May '68? David Drake examines the political commitment of intellectuals in France from Sartre and Camus to Bernard-Henri Lévy and Bourdieu. In this accessible study, he explores why there was a radical reassessment of the intellectual's... more...
French Social Theory
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 54.00This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles: positivist, anthropological and Marxist; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts. more...
The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 119.99Recent scholarship on the French Boulangist movement has focused on the combination of socialism and chauvinism behind it, but this study argues that it was royalist and conservative support that provided the crucial backing. more...
Reproductions of Banality
University of Minnesota Press 1986; US$ 51.00Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to... more...
Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 110.00In France the idea that a person can be both a French citizen and have an ethnic or religious identity is unacceptable, while in Britain community cohesion promote the combining of race or faith with the idea of being British. This volume examines the problems posed by these assumptions and the realities that are forcing them to be revisited. more...
Views from the Margins
University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 31.95This collection of essays offers examples drawn from an imperial history of France that show the power of the periphery to shape diverse and dynamic modern French identities at its center. Each essay explains French identity as a fluid process rather than a category into which French citizens (and immigrants) are expected to fit. In using a core/periphery... more...
Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World
University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 40.00The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the... more...
Handbook of French Popular Culture
ABC-CLIO 1991; US$ 100.00This book presents a series of highly readable essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments, as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. more...









