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008			150803s2016 enka b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780190262686 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020			_a0190262680 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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100	1		_aBell, David Avrom, _eauthor. _9301669
245	1	0	_aShadows of revolution : _breflections on France, past and present / _cDavid A. Bell.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2016]
300			_ax, 444 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
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520	2		_a"Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution : Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French history through the lens of the Revolutionary era. Within a space of a dozen years, from Bastille to Bonaparte, the country experimented with and experienced every form of governance, creating in the process, as Bell puts it, 'the most intense political laboratory the world had ever known.' The Revolution remains the country's defining era, delineating its sense of identity and overshadowing the events that followed it. Yet another, Bell argues, is the Vichy period and World War Two--France's dark night of the soul--with whose legacies the country continues to contend. These two moments of violent and transformative upheaval may dominate French history, but as this collection and Bell's observational powers reveal, the full range of topics involving France is endlessly rich and diverse. Divided into eight sections, it connects France's education to its national identity, the Enlightenment to the Revolution and human rights, Napoleon to Victor Hugo, and nineteenth-century anti-Semitism to such recent events such as the riots of 2006, the Arab Spring, and the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. Shadows of Revolution embodies and reflects the endlessly fascinating and entertaining complexity of French history, and shows the ways in which it has shaped world history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520	2		_a"David Bell wrote the essays in this collection over the course of more than fifteen years, each in response to a new book or political event and published in the New Republic, New York Review of Books, or London Review of Books. Their common thread is France and French history, of which Bell is one of the world's acknowledged experts. Shadows of Revolution is divided into seven sections: The Longue Duree; From the Old Regime to the Revolution; The Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; The Nineteenth Century; Vichy; and Parallels : Past and Present. Bell argues that so much of French (and European) history revolves around and returns to the French Revolution of 1789 to 1799. So much happened in so short a time that Chateaubriand later claimed that many centuries had crammed themselves into a single quarter-century. Bell's other main focus is World War Two and the French Vichy regime. He has followed the long and painful process by which the French have come to terms with their collaboration with Nazi Germany, including the creation of monuments to the Holocaust, exhibitions devoted to Vichy and the fate of the French Jews, and the speech that President Jacques Chirac gave in 1995, finally recognizing French responsibility for the deportation of Jews to the death camps. In its way, each of the essays in this collection--Bell's first book of the kind--reflects upon the ways that political and cultural patterns first set in the age of the Revolution continue to resonate, not just in France, but throughout the world"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe "Longue Durée" -- From the Old Regime to the Revolution -- The Revolution -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- The Nineteenth Century -- Vichy -- Parallels : Past and Present.
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory. _922895
651		0	_aFrance _xPolitics and government. _9301670
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yRevolution, 1789-1799 _xInfluence. _921099
650		0	_aNational characteristics, French _xHistory. _9301671
650		0	_aPolitics and culture _zFrance _xHistory. _9301672
651		0	_aFrance _xSocial conditions. _9301673
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