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2. | | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth centuryAuthor: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more]Similar Items |
3. | | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary FranceAuthor: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more]Similar Items |
4. | | 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 | PoliticsPublisher'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 |
5. | | Title: The Jews of modern FranceAuthor: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | French Studies | European Studies | History | European History | Judaism | Urban StudiesPublisher'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 |
6. | | Title: Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815Author: Schechter, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Intellectual History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusuall . . . [more]Similar Items |
7. | | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French StudiesPublisher'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 |
8. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
9. | | Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more]Similar Items |
10. | | Title: Inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century FranceAuthor: Dowbiggin, Ian R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Sociology | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness , Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolut . . . [more]Similar Items |
11. | | Title: Marianne in the market: envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle FranceAuthor: Tiersten, Lisa 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies | European History | Consumerism | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as . . . [more]Similar Items |
12. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
13. | | Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary FranceAuthor: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Law | European History | European Literature | French StudiesPublisher'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 |
14. | | Title: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar FranceAuthor: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | French StudiesPublisher'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 |
15. | | 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 SocietyPublisher'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 |
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17. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
18. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
19. | | Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more]Similar Items |
20. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |