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Wesseling, H. L.

Certain Ideas of France : Essays on French History and Civilization. - 1 online resource (214 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I Culture and Society -- CHAPTER 1 Ary Scheffer and His Time -- CHAPTER 2 The Paris of Émile Zola -- CHAPTER 3 Pierre de Coubertin: Sport and Ideology in the Third Republic, 1870- 1914 -- CHAPTER 4 Commotion at the Sorbonne: The Debate on the French University, 1910- 1914 -- PART II Intellectuals and Politics -- CHAPTER 5 Reluctant Crusaders: French Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair -- CHAPTER 6 Robert Brasillach and the Temptation of Fascism -- CHAPTER 7 An Intellectual in Politics: Raymond Aron, 1905- 1983 -- PART III Politics and Diplomacy -- CHAPTER 8 Constants in French Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER 9 Was de Gaulle Right? -- CHAPTER 10 Charles de Gaulle and Charles Péguy: A Certain Idea of France -- PART IV History and Historians -- CHAPTER 11 Gabriel Hanotaux: An Historian in Politics -- CHAPTER 12 The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary History: The First Fifty Years -- CHAPTER 13 Fernand Braudel: Historian of the "Longue Durée" -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN: 9780313012785

Subjects--Topical Terms:
France -- Civilization -- 20th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DC33.7 -- .W5713 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 944.081