Cult of the Modern - Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity

Gavin Murray-Miller is a lecturer of modern European history at Cardiff University.
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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cult of the Modern in the Nineteenth Century
1. Imagining the Modern Community
2. State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist Modernity
3. Civilizing and Nationalizing
4. The Crucible of Modern Society
5. Old Ends and New Means
6. Republican Government and Political Modernization
7. Toward the Trans-Mediterranean Republic
Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Gavin Murray-Miller is a lecturer of modern European history at Cardiff University.
 

Summary

Focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Murray-Miller
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780803290648
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9064-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Em; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Frankreich, Afrikanische Geschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Africa / North, History - General History