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| 41. |  | 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 |
| 42. |  | 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 |
| 43. |  | Title: Art nouveau in fin-de-siècle France: politics, psychology, and style Author: Silverman, Debora Leah Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Art History | French Studies | European History | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 44. |  | 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 |
| 45. |  | 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 |
| 46. |  | 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 |
| 47. |  | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics Publisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: The Jews of modern France Author: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | French Studies | European Studies | History | European History | Judaism | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France Author: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies Publisher's Description: Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Images of intolerance: the representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée Author: Lipton, Sara 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Medieval Studies | French Studies | Medieval History | Art History | Judaism Publisher's Description: Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée , are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | French Studies | European History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought Author: Jay, Martin 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History | French Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art Theory Publisher's Description: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | European Literature | Poetry | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies | Medieval Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Similar Items |