Place and Locality in Modern France

Place and Locality in Modern France analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book provides a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history.The contributed chapters address a range of subjects that include: the politics of administrative reform, decentralization, regionalism and local advocacy; the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place; the importance of ethnic, class, gender and race distinctions in shaping local connection and identity; the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. As a reconsideration of the ''local'' in French history, Place and Locality in Modern France bridges the divide between micro- and macro-history for all those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history.>

About the author

Philip Whalen is Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University, USA. He has written or edited five books, including French Historians, 1900-2000 (2010) and Place and Locality in Modern France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014; with Patrick Young).Patrick Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Whalen, Philip Young Whalen, Patrick Young
• Assisted by: Philip Whalen (Editor), Patrick Young (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781474282772
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8277-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history