History of French Passions

Zusatztext The world's foremost authority on Frenchness. Klappentext This is a history of the French, which attempts to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms, and prejudices. It goes beyond a mere recital of events to investigate the attitudes and behavior over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part scrutinizes the peculiar way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French and their ambivalent feelings about foreigners. It shows what it meant to be a Breton or a Provencal, an Alsatian, or an Auvergnat. The second part analyzes French taste and the role of the artist. It enquires into the quality of life, the French view of happiness, friendship and comfort, humor, reactions to scientific progress, compromises with corruption, and superstition. This survey is a major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experiences of the French. It has taken its place as one of the great works of scholarship on modern France. Vorwort `Brilliant, original, entertaining, and inexhaustible.' The Times Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Autori: Theodore Zeldin, Theodore (Fellow Zeldin, Zeldin Theodore
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.10.1993
• EAN: 9780198221777
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822177-7
• Pagine: 830
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 215 mm x 40 mm
• Serie: Oxford History of Modern Europe; Oxford History of Modern Europ; Oxford History of Modern Europ; Print on Demand; Oxford History of Modern Europe; A History of French Passions
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Frankreich, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799