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Bloomsbury Place and Locality in Modern France 2014 Edition by Professor Philip Whalen, Professor Patrick Young
Place and Locality in Modern France 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 provides a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history.The contributed chapters address a range of subjects that include:the politics of administrative reform, decentralization, regionalism and local advocacy; the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place;the importance of ethnic, class, gender and race distinctions in shaping local connection and identity;the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. As a reconsideration of the 'local' in French history, Place and Locality in Modern France bridges the divide between micro- and macro-history for all those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsThe Local in French History: Changing Paradigms and PossibilitiesPatrick Young and Philip WhalenI Space1. The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France Ian Coller2. Mapping Locality in Provincial France: The Cartographic Construction of Identity, Space, and Boundaries in Alsace-LorraineCatherine Dunlop3. Modern Burgundy as Gastronomic RegimePhilip Whalen4. Imagining Greater France in the Provinces: The Strasbourg Colonial ExhibitionAlison Carrol5. Localizing Universalism: Annales Historians in Contested Transformations of LocalityJoseph Tendler6. A Local/Transnational Approach to Migration: The International Migration Service and its Marseilles Office in the First Half of the 20th CenturyLinda GuerryII Culture7. La Lorraine Artiste: Modernity, Nature, and the Nation in the Work of Emile Galle and the Ecole de NancyJessica Dandona8. The Casbah des Oudaya: The Colonial Production of a Historic District in MoroccoStacy Holden9. Facing the Nation: National Sentiment and National Belonging in the Wartime Writings of Irene Nemirovsky and Leon WerthNathan Bracher10. Remembering Oradour and Struthof: Struggles of Regional Memory and National CommemorationElizabeth Vlossak11. Judging a Book Town by Its Cover: Advertising Strategies of France's Villages du LivreAudra Merfeld-Langston12. Our Cousins in the New World: Celebrating Mexico in the French AlpsN. Christine BrookesIII Politics13. Local Identities and Internal Migration: Networking as a Survival Strategy in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary FranceDenise Davidson14. Soldiers of the Pays: Localism and Nationalism in the Revolutionary-Era ArmyChristopher Tozzi15. From mal du pays to l'amour du pays: Fatal Nostalgia and the Local in Nineteenth-Century FranceThomas Dodman16. An Uncertain Icon: The Changing Significance of the Croix Occitane in the Post-War MidiAndrew Smith17. Adoption and Adaptation: The Survival French DepartementsThomas Procureur18. Le President? Georges Freche and the Making of a Local Notable in Late Twentieth Century FranceEmile Chabal Index