Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France

by Bertrand Taithe

Book Overview

Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-si cle spirit. Looking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719081262
• ISBN13: 9780719081262
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"