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Author Wesseling, H. L

Title Certain ideas of France : essays on French history and civilization / H.L. Wesseling ; foreword by Eugen Weber
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages)
Series Contributions to the study of world history, 0885-9159 ; no. 98
Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 98. 0885-9159
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I. Culture and Society -- 1. Ary Scheffer and His Time -- 2. The Paris of Emile Zola -- 3. Pierre de Coubertin: Sport and Ideology in the Third Republic, 1870-1914 -- 4. Commotion at the Sorbonne: The Debate on the French University, 1910-1914 -- Part II. Intellectuals and Politics -- 5. Reluctant Crusaders: French Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair -- 6. Robert Brasillach and the Temptation of Fascism -- 7. An Intellectual in Politics: Raymond Aron, 1905-1983 -- Part III. Politics and Diplomacy -- 8. Constants in French Foreign Policy -- 9. Was de Gaulle Right? -- 10. Charles de Gaulle and Charles Peguy: A Certain Idea of France -- Part IV. History and Historians -- 11. Gabriel Hanotaux: An Historian in Politics -- 12. The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary History: The First Fifty Years -- 13. Fernand Braudel: Historian of the "Longue Duree."
Summary Annotation Wesseling, one of the Netherlands' most respected contemporary historians, offers a great variety of studies and essays on modern French history and historians. The work is unique in its combination of biographical and structural approaches
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY.
Civilization
Fransen.
Volkskarakter.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051193
Subject France
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001058343
ISBN 0313012784
9780313012785
Other Titles Vele ideeën over Frankrijk. English