Description
| Product ID: | 9780198221777 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford History of Modern Europe |
| Title: | A History of French Passions: Volume 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics |
| Authors: | Author: Theodore Zeldin |
| Page Count: | 830 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, History, Cultural studies, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Cultural studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. This first part scrutinizes the way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French, their sense of national identity, and their ambivalent feelings about foreigners. This is a history of the French which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond the recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities.Volume I scrutinizes the peculiar way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French, their powerful sense of national identity, their ambivalent feelings about foreigners. It shows what it meant to be a Breton or a Provencal, an Alsation or an Auvergnat. Volume II analyses French taste and the role of the artist. It enquires into the quality of life, the French view of happiness, friendship and comfort, humour, reactions to scientific progress, compromises with corruption and superstition.This major reinterpretation of France''s achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French has taken its place as one of the great works of scholarship on modern France, and now re-appears in two paperback volumes. |
| Imprint Name: | Clarendon Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1993-10-07 |
