Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France

by Bertrand Taithe

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Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-si cle spirit. Looking...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0719081262

ISBN13:9780719081262

Release Date:April 2010

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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