The pride of place : local memories & political culture in nineteenth-century France /

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past and thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, staged historical pageants and created museums. The author provides a cultural and political history of this 'cult of local memories'.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Gerson, Stéphane
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8r05
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction: local memories and modernity
  • pt. 1. Le Pays. The field of local memories
  • pt. 2. L'Amour du Pays. Recomposing self and nation
  • The pedagogy of place
  • Local memories and the governing of the minds
  • pt. 3. Le Mal du Pays. Town, nation, or humanity?
  • Local difference and the state
  • The quandary of local initiative
  • Sur les Lieux: provincial elites before the state
  • Epilogue: the return to the local.