The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Modern France

by Stephane Gerson

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, staged historical pageants, and created museums and pantheons of celebrities. Stéphane Gerson's rich, elegantly written, and timely book provides the first cultural and political history of what contemporaries called the "cult of local memories," an unprecedented effort to resuscitate the past,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488737
• ISBN13: 9780801488733
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher