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| 41. |  | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Printed poison: pamphlet propaganda, faction politics, and the public sphere in early Seventeenth-century France  Author: Sawyer, Jeffrey K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | Politics | French Studies Publisher's Description: Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle for d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary France Author: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Law | European History | European Literature | French Studies Publisher's Description: From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution. Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Publishing and cultural politics in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 Author: Hesse, Carla Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | French Studies Publisher's Description: In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary civilization - authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and publishing world fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris Author: Walz, Robin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | French Studies | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provoc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | French Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: The rise of the Paris red belt Author: Stovall, Tyler Edward Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies Publisher's Description: From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stov . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Geography | French Studies | European Studies | Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Spectacular realities: early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris Author: Schwartz, Vanessa R Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History | European Literature | Women's Studies | Film Publisher's Description: During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real life as spectacle.Vanessa R. Schwartz examines . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French Studies Publisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Toward a new poetics: contemporary writing in France: interviews, with an introduction and translated texts Author: Gavronsky, Serge Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Writing | French Studies Publisher's Description: A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | French Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History | European Literature | Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |