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  • Sport in Paris

    Retracing the Culture of Play and Games in the City of Light (1854–2024)

    Edited by Maxence Leconte ...
    Series Book 14 - Sport, History and Culture
    This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and constitutes the first comprehensive piece of scholarship exclusively dedicated to the relationship between sport, history, and culture in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Paris Dreams, Paris Memories

    The City and Its Mystique

    by Charles Rearick ...
    "A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France ReviewHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Au Naturel

    Naturism, Nudism, and Tourism in Twentieth-Century France

    by Stephen L. Harp ...
    Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or "naturism," an activity more commonly referred to as "nudism." Because of France's unique tolerance for public nudity, the country also hosts hundreds of thousands of nudists from other European nations, an influx that has contributed to the most extensive infrastructure for nude tourism in the world. In Au Naturel, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • In the Museum of Man

    Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950

    by Alice L. Conklin ...
    In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Feel of the City

    Experiences of Urban Transformation

    by Nicolas Kenny ...
    At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions of health and decorum forced many to rethink their most banal gestures, from the way they negotiated speeding traffic to the use ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Tour De France, 1903-2003

    A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values

    Edited by Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Same but Different

    Hockey in Quebec

    Edited by Jason Jason Blake, Andrew Holman ...
    From coast to coast, hockey is played, watched, loved, and detested, but it means something different in Quebec. Although much of English Canada believes that hockey is a fanatically followed social unifier in the French-speaking province, in reality it has always been politicized, divided, and troubled by religion, class, gender, and language.In The Same but Different, writers from inside and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The New Bibliopolis

    French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914

    by Willa Z. Silverman ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

    Edited by Anna-Louise Milne ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Montreal After Dark

    Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City

    by Matthieu Caron ...
    Series Book 46 - Études d’histoire du Québec / Studies on the History of Quebec
    Sex and jazz, liquor and gambling: Montreal in the early twentieth century was a city that offered an exceptional nighttime scene in North America. By mid-century that scene came under scrutiny, and Montreal’s influential mayor Jean Drapeau would be elected for the first time on a reformist platform that promised to end corruption. Over more than three decades, Drapeau would endeavour to transform ... Read more

    $31.99 USD