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Author : Barnett Singer
Release : 1983
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Book Synopsis Village Notables in Nineteenth-century France by : Barnett Singer
Download or read book Village Notables in Nineteenth-century France written by Barnett Singer. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barnett Singer
Release : 1983-06-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France by : Barnett Singer
Download or read book Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France written by Barnett Singer. This book was released on 1983-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local priests, mayors, and schoolmasters have often been portrayed by French novelists as objects of ridicule. In reality, however, the village notables gave norms to the villagers in their communities and personified the community's values. The influence of village notables and the values they preached and personified ensure their importance in any view of French rural history. Their world was already in transition towards modernity, and they both guided and impeded the process. Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France tells who these notables were, where they came from, what they thought, what influence they had in local society, how they competed with each other for village hegemony or enhanced status, and what problems they endured. The book is a lively account, solidly based on extensive archival research and other primary sources. It gives the reader a feel for the era and the milieu.
Author : William G. Pooley
Release : 2019-12-19
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Book Synopsis Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France by : William G. Pooley
Download or read book Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France written by William G. Pooley. This book was released on 2019-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in one generation into the largest man-made forest in Europe. Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921). The study places the songs, stories, and everyday speech that Arnaudin collected, as well as the photographs he took, in the everyday lives of agricultural workers and artisans. It argues that the changes are were understood as a gradual revolution in bodily experiences, as men and women forged new working habits, new sexual relations, and new ways of conceiving of their own bodies. Rather than merely presenting a story of top-down reform, this is an account of the flexibility and creativity of the cultural traditions of the working population. William G. Pooley tells the story of the folklorist Arnaudin and the men and women whose cultural traditions he recorded, then uncovers the work carried out by Arnaudin to explore everyday speech about the body, stories of werewolves and shapeshifters, tales of animal cunning and exploitation, and songs about love and courtship. The volume focuses on the lives of a handful of the most talented storytellers and singers Arnaudin encountered, showing how their cultural choices reflect wider patterns of behaviour in the region, and across rural Europe.
Author : M. Lyons
Release : 2001-07-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France by : M. Lyons
Download or read book Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France written by M. Lyons. This book was released on 2001-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the reading public expanded to embrace new categories of consumers, especially of cheap fiction. These new lower-class and female readers frightened liberals, Catholics and republicans alike. The study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyse the fear of reading in nineteenth century France. The author presents a series of case-studies of actual readers, to examine their choices and their practices, and to evaluate how far they responded to (or subverted) attempts at cultural domination.
Author : Anne Therese Quartararo
Release : 1995
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth-century France by : Anne Therese Quartararo
Download or read book Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth-century France written by Anne Therese Quartararo. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century France is a study of the network of women's teacher training schools, known as the ecoles normales primaires, that were gradually created in France during the nineteenth century. Although this study focuses on the recruitment of teachers, their pedagogical and social instruction, and the teachers' professional formation as part of a corporate group, the book also ties these teacher-related issues to the universal development of public primary education in France. Based on numerous national and departmental archives, the study also explores the social values inherent to public education in modern France through the corporate model of the women's normal schools."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
