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  • Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Edited by Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly ...
    Series Book 10 - Explorations in Culture and International History
    From the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century*, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries* is the first book to highlight the significance of ‘postwar transitions’ in the field of music and to demonstrate the influence that musicians, composers, critics, institutions, and publics have had on the period that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    by Angela Kershaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Camus

    Edited by Edward J. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • After the Deluge

    New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

    by François Dosse, Michael Behrent, David Berry, Lucia Bonfreschi, Warren Breckman, Michael Scott Christofferson, Stuart Elden, William Gallois, Ron Haas, Ethan Kleinberg, Samuel Moyn, Philippe Poirrier, Christophe Premat, Alan D. Schrift ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Après nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist and postmodernist theories from French thinkers. But Julian Bourg's seamlessly edited ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • France's New Deal

    From the Thirties to the Postwar Era

    by Philip Nord ...
    France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third Republic and under ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Marxism and the French Left

    Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981

    by Tony Judt ...
    Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Reconciling France against Democracy

    The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945

    by Sean M. Kennedy ...
    Kennedy describes how the Croix de Feu promised to restore patriotic unity to France but instead demonized the organization's enemies as unfit to be French; its successor, the Parti Social Français, professed a respect for democracy but actually promoted an authoritarian nationalist vision. Previous studies have focused on whether the Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français should be considered ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Music in World War II

    Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States

    by Pamela M Potter, Christina L Baade, Roberta Marvin ...
    A collection of essays examining the roles played by music in American and European society during the Second World War.Global conflicts of the twentieth century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of these conflicts is that they have unique musical ... Read more

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  • Capitalism

    The Story behind the Word

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Fragility of Law

    Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

    by David Fraser ...
    The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Némirovsky Question

    The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

    by Susan Rubin Suleiman ...
    A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her two young daughters survived, and as adults they brought their mother back to life. In 2004, Suite ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Whose Spain?

    Negotiating "Spanish Music" in Paris, 1908-1929

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

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