Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), cover edges jacket marginally faded. 292 pp. A compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris - a crucial era in the making of modern France. By examining the history of the body and medicine, Taithe shows how the French mobilized for the war effort, and how their ultimate defeat had devastating cultural and social consequences that led to the "fin de siecle spirit" (the feeling that society was in crisis and needed radical change).

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Titre

Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France [Medicine, Society, and the Birth of Modern France].

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Manchester University Press, Manchester

Date de parution

1999

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0719056217

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780719056215

Reliure

Couverture rigide

�dition

1st ed.

�tat de la jaquette

Jaquette

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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 at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France. -- .

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Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester

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