"Place and Locality in Modern France is an edited collection that successfully analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book is a...
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"Place and Locality in Modern France is an edited collection that successfully analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book is a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history. The book investigates the politics of administrative reform, regionalism and projects of decentralization. It looks at the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place, explores the importance of ethnic, class and gender distinctions, and considers the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. In short, this text provides a sweeping account of the concept of the 'local' in French history in a way that will effectively bridge the divide between micro- and macro-history for those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history"--
The local in French history : changing paradigms and possibilities / Patrick Young and Philip WhalenPART I. SPACE. The Republic of Marseille and the making of imperial France / Ian Coller
Mapping locality in provincial France : the cartographic construction of identity, space, and boundaries in Alsace-Lorraine / Cahterine Dunlop
Modern Burgundy as gastronomic regime / Philip Whalen
Imagining greater France in the provinces : the Strasbourg Colonial Exhibition / Alison Carrol
Localizing universalism : Annales historians in contested transformations of locality / Joseph Tendler
A local/transnational approach to migration : the International Migration Service and its Marseilles office in the first half of the 20th century / Linda Guerry
PART II. CULTURE. La lorraine artiste : modernity, nature, and the nation in the work of Emile Gallé and the Cole de Nancy / Jessica Dandona
The Casbah des Oudaya : the colonial production of a historic district in Morocco / Stacy Holden
Facing the nation : national sentiment and national belonging in the wartime writings of Irène Némirovsky and Léon Werth / Nathan Bracher
Remembering Oradour and Struthof : struggles of regional memory and national commemoration / Elizabeth Vlossak
Judging a book town by its cover : advertising strategies of France's Villages du Livre / Audra Merfeld-Langston
Our cousins in the New World : celebrating Mexico in the French Alps / N. Christine Brookes
PART III. POLITICS. Local identities and internal migration : networking as a survival strategy in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France / Denise Davidson
Soldiers of the pays : localism and nationalism in the revolutionary-era army / Christopher Tozzi
From mal du pays to l'amour du pays : fatal nostalgia and the local in nineteenth-century France / Thomas Dodman
An uncertain icon : the changing significance of the Croix occitane in the post-war Midi / Andrew Smith
Adoption and adaptation : the survival of French départements / Thomas Procureur
Le président? : Georges Frêche and the making of a local notable in late twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal.
