Peasant and French : Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521467705
ISBN-13
9780521467704
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 1995
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 1.40 cms
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Peasant and French describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the contact between the French and their rural cultures. It provides a new view of French rural history with implications not only for the history of modern France but also for the study of the development of nationalism and cultural studies.
Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the development of the French national identity during the nineteenth century. Drawing on methods from cultural studies and social history and a broad range of literary and archival sources, Lehning argues that modern France has in part defined itself as different from the peasantry. Rather than seeing rural French history as a process in which peasants lose their identities and become French, he views it as an ongoing process of cultural contact in which both peasants and the French nation negotiate their identities in relation to the other. The book suggests a new kind of rural history that places the countryside in its national context rather than in isolation.
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