Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Lehning, James R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052146210X ISBN 13 : 9780521462105

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the development of the French national identity during the nineteenth century. Drawing on methods from cultural studies and social history and a broad range of literary and archival sources, Lehning argues that modern France has in part defined itself as different from the peasantry. Rather than seeing rural French history as a process in which peasants lose their identities and become French, he views it as an ongoing process of cultural contact in which both peasants and the French nation negotiate their identities in relation to the other. The book suggests a new kind of rural history that places the countryside in its national context rather than in isolation.

Revue de presse

'... the book provides some valuable appraisals of perceptions of peasent life and offers an excellent bibliography'. Hugh Clout, he Agricultural History Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052146210X
• ISBN 13: 9780521462105
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie