Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical Perspectives) |
Buy Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical Perspectives) here, one of 749 France History books offered for sale at discount prices here in the history books section at R bookshop. There are currently 71945 history books in our history books section, and over 1,000,000 books listed in our book store. We greatly appreciate your patronage at R bookshop and look forward to offering you a large selection of great books at discount prices now and in the future. Thank you for shopping at R Bookshop!
|
You Are Here: Home > History Books > France History > Item 58
 |
Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical Perspectives)
|
by Herman Lebovics and Herman Lebovics
Sales Rank: 283272
|
List Price: $29.95
$29.95
At Amazon
on 6-16-2008.
|
|
|
|
Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 232 pages
Published by: Duke University Press June 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822332604
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822332602
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
"[F]ascinating. . . ."
--Benedict Anderson, Bookforum
"Recommended. . . ."
--M. Curtis, Choice
"Lebovics’s light touch masks the extensive research that supports his arguments. His enjoyable and profound treatise on contemporary France should be read by anyone interested in the dilemmas of the postcolonial world."
--John R. Bowen, American Anthopologist
"The pieces are both essay and commentary, written with scholarly gravity and infused with a punchy rhetorical style. . . . What makes the chapter pieces more than simply an essay collection is the extended meditation on 'globalization' and 'the global' that runs throughout."
--Matt K. Masuda, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"[F]ascinating. . . . [A] valuable intervention in a contemporary set of political debates."
--Donald Reid, International History Review
“It is hard to imagine a more appropriate moment for Bringing the Empire Back Home. The shocking view of thousands of enraged young men issues de l’immigration setting their suburban neighborhoods on fire in October 2005 have made Lebovics’ an very timely book.”
--Andrés Reggiani, French Politics, Culture, and Society
“[A] tour de force. Through its lively narrative, [Bringing the Empire Back Home] succeeds in painting a complex portrait of contemporary French identity and of the tools that socially and politically construct it. The book is particularly strong in showing how the current struggle to contest globalization arose from the interplay between French cultural policy and decolonization, and from the fact that the French centralized model manifests itself in all walks of life—from controlling academic curricula to deciding on the content of museums’ collections.”
--Sophie Meunier, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“Lebovics’ work is timely and informative as well as creative in the connections made between the French empire, its decline and current issues in French politics and society. It is definitely a must-read for anyone involved in French studies research and teaching as well as for those whose discipline is cultural studies and more specifically postcolonial studies. It is an great guide to understanding the
current political and cultural climate in France.”
--Lorie Sauble-Otto, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
“Bringing the Empire Back Home is compelling, illuminating, an invigorating contribution to the ongoing endeavour to make sense of a cultural identity in transition. Scholars interested in culture, politics or history should most definitely read this book.”
--Melanie Farrimond, Dalhousie French Studies
“Herman Lebovics provides the most sophisticated guide we have to the past generation’s identity politics in France.”
--Clifford Rosenberg, Journal of Modern History
“For those eager to understand the social tensions recently so evident in contemporary France, this book makes an great starting point.”
--Martin Thomas, History
Product Description
Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France’s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s—including José Bové—dismantled the new local McDonald’s. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region’s primary market product. The two struggles—the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might—were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world.
In Bringing the Empire Back Home, the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West’s most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France’s efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.
Back To Top
|
Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical Perspectives)
Available from Amazon
Price: $29.95
Updated on 6-16-2008.
|
NOTICE: All prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
| We offer Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical Perspectives) and other related France History Books here at Rbookshop.com. To view more books about France History please use the previous and next buttons near the top of this page.
|
|
Search for books at
