Matthew D'Auria (University of East Anglia)

The Shaping of French National Identity

Narrating the Nation's Past, 1715-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Casts new light on the intellectual origins of the 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the French past from the early eighteenth century to the Restoration, reshaping the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 487
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781107571846
• ISBN-10: 1107571847
• Artikelnr.: 69299414

Autorenporträt

Matthew D'Auria is a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. His main research interest lies in the relationship between images of the nation and discourses about Europe. Among his many publications on this topic are, with Mark Hewitson (eds.), Europe in Crisis: Intellectuals and the European Idea, 1917-1957 (2021) and, with Jan Vermeiren (eds.), Visions and Ideas of Europe During the First World War (2019). He is currently coediting, with Cathie Carmichael and Aviel Roshwald, The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Narrating the Nation: From the Nineteenth to the Eighteenth
Century; Part I: 1. Race, Blood, and Lineage: The Nobility's National
Narrative and the History of France; 2. History and Race: The Subject of
Boulainvilliers's National Narrative; 3. Debating the Nation's
History: From Royal(ist) to Ethnic Origins; Part II: 4. Thinking the
Nation's Character: At the Crossroads of Literature, Anthropology, and
History; 5. Moral and Physical Causes: Montesquieu's History of Nations; 6.
Discussing the Nation's History: Franks, Gauls, and the French Character;
Part III: 7. Classifying the Nation: The Past(s) of 'Social Classes' Before
and After the Revolution; 8. A Bourgeois National Narrative: On Augustin
Thierry's Réforme Historique; 9. Debating the Nation's Past(s): Giving the
Bourgeoisie its History; Conclusion.