Industry and Politics in Rural France

Industry and Politics in Rural France
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 0801428149
ISBN-13 : 9780801428142
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Industry and Politics in Rural France by : Raymond Anthony Jonas

Men stayed on the farms, and women departed for the mills.

Peasants into Frenchmen

Peasants into Frenchmen
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 631
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ISBN-10 : 9780804710138
ISBN-13 : 0804710139
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Peasants into Frenchmen by : Eugen Weber

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.

Organic Resistance

Organic Resistance
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781469641195
ISBN-13 : 1469641194
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Organic Resistance by : Venus Bivar

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

Twilight of the Elites

Twilight of the Elites
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780300240825
ISBN-13 : 0300240821
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Twilight of the Elites by : Christophe Guilluy

A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

Modern France

Modern France
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780195389418
ISBN-13 : 0195389417
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Modern France by : Vanessa R. Schwartz

The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.

My Good Life in France

My Good Life in France
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Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781782437338
ISBN-13 : 1782437339
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis My Good Life in France by : Janine Marsh

Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride.

OECD Economic Surveys: France 2021

OECD Economic Surveys: France 2021
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Publisher : OECD Publishing
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9789264891241
ISBN-13 : 9264891242
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis OECD Economic Surveys: France 2021 by : OECD

The French economy rebounded quickly following the COVID-19 crisis, in particular thanks to the acceleration of the vaccination campaign and strong public support measures. Rapid and effective implementation of the recovery and investment plans would help support stronger and more sustainable growth.

Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939

Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0801434211
ISBN-13 : 9780801434211
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Rural Communism in France, 1920-1939 by : Laird Boswell

Drawing on extensive interviews with thirty-four surviving Communist militants and an analysis of voter behavior, this book focuses on the Party's persistent strength during the interwar period in such rural strongholds as Limousin and Dordogne.

France and 1848

France and 1848
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781134379231
ISBN-13 : 1134379234
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis France and 1848 by : William Fortescue

1848 was a year of revolution throughout Europe. Examining the economic, social and political crises, this book evaluates the political history of France during the revolution of 1848 and the French political culture of the time.