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835 books match the query 'France' and 60 start with s
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
Negotiating Shifting FormsEmily E. Thompson
University of Delaware Press, 2022
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Strains of Dissent
Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940 - 1945Kelly Jakes
Michigan State University Press, 2019
Street by Street
Dispossessing Jewish Apartments in Wartime ParisIsabelle Backouche
Rutgers University Press, 2027
During the Holocaust, nearly 40,000 apartments in Paris inhabited by Jewish families were completely emptied by the German authorities, and many of their tenants lost their rights to continue renting the apartments. In Street by Street, Isabelle Backouche, Sarah Gensburger, and Eric Le Bourhis tell this little-known history of how Parisians took advantage of the persecution of the Jews to improve their own housing in a time of crisis. In the aftermath of the war, the French Republic ensured that the dispossession became permanent, silencing Jewish claims to their prewar homes.
Based on a ten-year investigation and written in a narrative style, this recounting of an unknown chapter of the history of the Holocaust in Western Europe goes beyond the study of individual behavior to highlight how material benefits and privileges can foster systemic antisemitism. The book includes a map of the sites and neighborhoods discussed, as well as photographs of views from windows and doors, courtyards, and building entryways, in both affluent and working-class neighborhoods. The authors tell the story of the organized disappearance of tenants identified as Jewish and the lack of justice that persists to this day.
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a DisabilityEdward Wheatley
University of Michigan Press, 2010
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today."
---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University
"A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book."
---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness.
A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature.
This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy.
Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.
Subject/Object and Beyond
Women in Early Modern FranceEdited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov
Iter Press, 2023
Subject/Object and Beyond brings together essays by established and emerging scholars to honor the exceptionally rich contributions and career of scholar Colette H. Winn. It also celebrates fifty years of sustained scholarship on early modern women, along with the foundation of Women’s Studies as a recognized academic discipline in North America. The collection comprises seventeen articles that explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to various fields, including literature, music, politics, religion, and science.
Suddenly Soldiers
The 166th Infantry Regiment in World War IRobert Thompson
Westholme Publishing, 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards in Unit Histories
Americans Face the Horror of a Modern European War for the First Time
When America entered World War I in April 1917, state National Guard units had never planned to mobilize for this kind of war, and the men who made up the hometown companies of each regiment never imagined that they would be asked to fight in what was then the most savage war in human history—they were “innocents” being thrown into a horrendous European conflagration. Made up of companies from ten Ohio towns, the 166th Infantry Regiment became part of the famous 42nd Division, known as the “Rainbow Division.” They were the third American division to arrive in France, where they fought courageously in the trenches at Lunéville and Baccarat before being a key part of the American effort in the Second Battle of the Marne and the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Despite their initial lack of training in modern warfare and weapons, the 166th Infantry compiled an impressive combat record. However, that record came at a terrible cost, with the regiment suffering over two thousand casualties in just nine months of fighting. While they battled the Germans, these hometown Guardsmen lived in trenches and foxholes for weeks at a time, while subsisting on canned beef and coffee amid near constant rain, deep mud, rats, and body lice that made their lives miserable. Because of poor planning and leadership from higher headquarters, they were often asked to achieve impossible objectives amid withering enemy machine-gun fire without proper logistics or artillery support. Yet, despite these challenges, they would persevere, overcome, and emerge victorious.
Using regimental histories and the letters and diaries of the soldiers who fought in France, Suddenly Soldiers: The 166th Infantry Regiment in World War I by author and historian Robert Thompson tells the compelling story of the young men—“citizen soldiers”—who have always borne the cost of America’s freedom with quiet courage.
Sunspots and the Sun King
Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century FranceEllen M. McClure
University of Illinois Press, 2006
Mediation, monarchy, and Louis XIV's attempts to legitimize his reign
In order to assert his divine right, Louis XIV missed no opportunity to identify himself as God’s representative on earth. However, in Sunspots and the Sun King Ellen McClure explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to reconcile the logical and mystical aspects of divine right monarchy. McClure analyzes texts devoted to definitions of sovereignty, presents a meticulous reading of Louis XIV’s memoirs to the crown prince, and offers a novel analysis of diplomats and ambassadors as the mediators who preserved and transmitted the king’s authority. McClure asserts that these discussions, ranging from treatises to theater, expose incommensurable models of authority and representation permeating almost every aspect of seventeenth-century French culture.
Surrealism
The Road to the AbsoluteAnna Balakian
University of Chicago Press, 1987
This volume includes photographs of the poets and reproductions of paintings by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, and others.
Symbolic Space
French Enlightenment Architecture and Its LegacyRichard A. Etlin
University of Chicago Press, 1994
For Etlin, the eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces. He focuses on the design theory of Boullée and Durand and charts their legacy through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn. He defines the distinctive features of neoclassicism and outlines the new grammar for classical architecture articulated by theorists and architects such as Laugier, Leroy, and Ledoux.
After discussing the eighteenth-century hôtel, revolutionary space, and the transformation of the image of the cemetery, Etlin examines the space of absence as embodied in commemorative architecture from Boullée and Gilly to Cret, Wright, and Terragni. His book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.
Symbolic Violence
Conversations with BourdieuMichael Burawoy
Duke University Press, 2019