The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Modern France

by Stephane Gerson

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Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, staged historical pageants, and created museums and pantheons of celebrities. Stéphane Gerson's rich, elegantly written, and timely book provides the first cultural and political history of what contemporaries called the "cult of local memories," an unprecedented effort to resuscitate the past,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801488737

ISBN13:9780801488733

Release Date:August 2003

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.4"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Cultural History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences Urban

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