Examines the nation-building process of continual re-creation and re-invention of more than two hundred years of the history of France. It explores the complex task of creating unity while reconciling regional, religious and cultural diversity in a nation. Divided into three sections, it covers French history, experience and identity, and seeks to integrate conventional political history with insight into nation-building. Themes such as social conflict, civil war and revolution, identity and difference, gender, colonialism and decolonization, religion, material and popular culture,...
Examines the nation-building process of continual re-creation and re-invention of more than two hundred years of the history of France. It explores...
This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium, over the two centuries which followed the French Revolution. During that time the region was transformed by the development of the industrial economy, population shifts, war and occupation, and numerous changes of political regime. Through an analysis of a wide range of issues, including language, regional and national political movements, educational policy, attitudes towards immigrants and the border, the press, trade unions, and the church -...
This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium,...
