Staging Civilization Markovits, Rahul; Todd, Jane Marie; Bell, David A
06/2021
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The book ultimately offers a revisionist account of the traditional Europe française thesis, engaging topics such as transnational labor history, early-modern court culture and republicanism, soft ...power, and cultural imperialism.
Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political ...life, massive public engagement with problems of economic order mediated an enduring cultural transformation. Economic activity was reimagined as a patriotic pursuit, and economic agents-farmers, merchants, and manufacturers-came to be viewed as potential citizens.
Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. In their view, France's moral, political, and economic power depended not simply on expanding the national wealth but also on reviving civic spirit. The "political economy of virtue" held that luxury was the cause of the nation's economic and moral degeneration. When the monarchy failed to reform its political economic structures in the 1760s and 1770s, mid-level elites sought to eliminate the stranglehold of the plutocracy.
Shovlin argues that the Revolution grew out of a debate on how to establish a commercial society capable of fostering both wealth and virtue, and the revolutionaries sought to create such a society by destroying the institutions that channeled modern wealth into the hands of courtiers and financiers.
This book provides an innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France among leftist intellectuals in the 1950s and was subsequently used in the 1960s and 1970s as a key ...term, both in struggles to position France within the globalizing world and in conflicts about social reform within France itself.
The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière
hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The
hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation,
pointing ...not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the
unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in
Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the
hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as
performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. The Salpêtrière
documents undeniably show the gravity of the institutional violence
committed against its female patients. Using the lenses of
performance studies and performance theory, Jenn Cole expresses the
overt and subtle damages done to hysterical women in Jean-Martin
Charcot's hospital, drawing attention to the hysteric's resistance
to these experiences: it is often simply by being herself that the
hysteric points to the inherent weaknesses in these systemic modes
of violence. In Hysteria in Performance , the hysteric
becomes a figure who represents possibilities for ethical
encounters within performance and everyday living. Revealing the
fraught and exciting nature of theatrical representation, and
continually drawing out the dilemmas and unexpected dynamics of
witnessing the suffering of others, this groundbreaking study
explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique
mixture of theatre and science that still has unexpected things to
teach us.
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of ...twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.
An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music Francis Poulenc is a key figure in ...twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although associated with five other French composers in what came to be called "Les Six", Poulenc was very muchsui generis in personality and in his music, where he excelled over a wide repertoire-opera, songs, ballet scores, chamber works, piano pieces, sacred and secular choral works, orchestral works and concertos. This book fully covers this wide range, while also describing the vicissitudes of Poulenc's life and the many important relationships he had with major figures such as Satie, Ravel, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau and others.
What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and fiscal ...pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe's flawed monetary union, runaway indebtedness, and chronically high structural unemployment.
World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes-either ...overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded.
Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France's colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement.Colonial Metropolistells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.
