Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination

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Laura Lee Downs, Stephane Gerson
Cornell University Press, 2011. gada 11. nov. - 256 lappuses

France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted quite the same hold on the American historical imagination, particularly in the post-1945 era.

To gain a fresh perspective on this passionate relationship, Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson commissioned a diverse array of historians to write autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past. In addition to the essays, Why France? includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and an afterword by one of France's most distinguished historians, Roger Chartier. Taken together, these essays provide a rich and thought-provoking portrait of France, the Franco-American relationship, and a half-century of American intellectual life, viewed through the lens of the best scholarship on France.

Contributors: Ken Alder, Northwestern University; John W. Baldwin, The Johns Hopkins University; Edward Berenson, New York University; Herrick Chapman, New York University; Roger Chartier, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales; Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University; Laura Lee Downs, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales; Stéphane Gerson, New York University; Jan Goldstein, The University of Chicago; Lynn Hunt, UCLA; Steven Kaplan, Cornell University; Thomas Kselman, Notre Dame University; Herman Lebovics, SUNY Stony Brook; Robert Paxton, Columbia University; Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins University; Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College; Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University; Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley

 

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Introduction
1
1 Medievalist and Francophile Despite Himself
21
2 A MidAtlantic Identity
35
3 Tough Love for France
47
4 Fantasy Meets Reality A Midwesterner Goes to Paris
61
5 Défense dafficher
73
6 France for Belgium
89
7 Why Paris?
99
11 Choosing History Discovering France
151
12 An African American in Paris
163
13 Writing at the Margins
177
14 Its Not About France
189
15 Pilgrims Progress From Suburban Canada to Paris via Montreal Tokyo and Tehran
203
16 Between Douai and the USA
215
Afterword
227
Notes
233

8 Catholic Connections Jewish Relations French Religion
111
9 Europe without Personal Angst
123
10 France a Political Romance
137
List of Contributors
239
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Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
Laura Lee Downs,Stéphane Gerson
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Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
Laura Lee Downs,Stephane Gerson
Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2011

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Laura Lee Downs is Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Divisions in the French and British Metalworking Industries (also from Cornell), Childhood in the Promised Land: Working Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, and Writing Gender History. Stéphane Gerson is Associate Professor of French and French Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, also from Cornell. Roger Chartier is a member of the Collége de France, Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author of many books, including The Order of Books and Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations.

Bibliogrāfiskā informācija

NosaukumsWhy France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
RedaktoriLaura Lee Downs, Stephane Gerson
LīdzstrādnieksRoger Chartier
IzdevējsCornell University Press, 2011
ISBN0801464870, 9780801464874
Apjoms256 lappuses
  
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