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A Small City in France
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by Françoise Gaspard, Eugen Weber, and Arthur Goldhammer
Sales Rank: 530821
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Cover Type: Paperback with 208 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press March 10, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 067481097X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674810976
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 11.5 ounces
Product Review
Françoise Gaspard's account of how the Front National was able to put down roots in the small town of Dreux, sixty miles west of Paris, is a highly interesting work of political anthropology[Gaspard] has delved deep into the history of DreuxThe book has been well translated by Arthur Goldhammer, and offers a brilliant portrayal of the lost civilization of small-town France. It describes with accuracy and insight, as well as with passion, the cultural tensions between locals and immigrants which grew up in the new suburbs and their gleeful exploitation by the Front National, for whom a Muslim-run shop that wouldn't sell ham was a political gift.
--Peter Morris (Times Literary Supplement )
An elegant case study of the appearance in France of the racist Front National (FN). Gaspard, a historian and native of Dreux, the city in question, was its mayor and parliamentary deputy when the FN broke through in the mid-1980sThis is an ominous and profound story, made all the more compelling by Goldhammer's stellar translation. A Small City in France may sound far away, but, with similar phenomena threatening in other parts of Europe and North America, it may be closer then we realize.
--George Ross (Contemporary Sociology )
This intelligently constructed book is not the apologia of a defeated politician. It is an ethnographic and social history of more than French importance, for the problems of accelerated growth and abrupt decline which the author describes are international.
--Phoebe-Lou Adams (Atlantic Monthly )
Product Review
The most significant book I have read on France in the Fifth Republic. Dreux's story is that of France. In considering the Front National, Gaspard does not simply condemn, she explains. Especially, her consideration of the problem of citizenship and the question of how to make democracy work in times of crisis is powerful.
--John Merriam, Yale University
Reader Reviews
Gaspard, a historian and the one-time socialist mayor of the small town of Dreux, sets out to explain how the extreme-right National Front took control of the municipal council of Dreux in the 1980s. What follows is an insightful and provocative analysis of the failure of politics in an era of changing economic fortunes. There's much to learn here on patterns of immigration, town planning, and local politics. It is not beach reading, but should be considered essential for anyone who wants to understand the crisis of integration in France today.
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