Certain Ideas of France : Essays on French History and Civilization.

Cover -- Certain Ideas of France -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I Culture and Society -- CHAPTER 1 Ary Scheffer and His Time -- ARY SCHEFFER'S PARIS -- ARY SCHEFFER'S FRANCE -- SCHEFFER AND HIS TIME -- CHAPTER 2 The Paris of Émile Zola -- ÉMILE ZOLA, 1840-1902 -- THE ROUGON-MACQUART -- PARIS UNDER THE SECOND EMPIRE -- PARIS IN L'OEUVRE -- CHAPTER 3 Pierre de Coubertin: Sport and Ideology in the Third Republic, 1870-1914 -- SPORT IN FRANCE -- PIERRE DE COUBERTIN -- SPORT AND SOCIETY -- CHAPTER 4 Commotion at the Sorbonne: The Debate on the French University, 1910-1914 -- FRENCH EDUCATION AND ITS CRITICS -- CRITICIZING SCIENCE -- CRITICIZING SOCIETY -- CONCLUSION -- PART II Intellectuals and Politics -- CHAPTER 5 Reluctant Crusaders: French Intellectuals and the Dreyfus Affair -- THE BIRTH OF THE INTELLECTUAL -- FORMS OF COMMITMENT -- MOTIVES -- ANTIINTELLECTUAL INTELLECTUALS -- INTELLECTUALS AND COMMITMENT: A BALANCE -- CHAPTER 6 Robert Brasillach and the Temptation of Fascism -- THE LIFE OF BRASILLACH -- THE BRASILLACH CASE -- CHAPTER 7 An Intellectual in Politics: Raymond Aron, 1905-1983 -- A SUCCESSFUL CAREER -- A REMARKABLE POSITION -- A VOLUMINOUS OEUVRE -- MASTERLY MEMOIRS -- A MAN OF SIGNIFICANCE -- PART III Politics and Diplomacy -- CHAPTER 8 Constants in French Foreign Policy -- THE PROBLEM -- WHAT ARE CONSTANTS? -- CONTINENTAL OR OVERSEAS ROLE? -- VICHY -- POST-WAR SITUATION -- CHAPTER 9 Was de Gaulle Right? -- DE GAULLE AND THATCHER -- THE IRONY OF HISTORY? -- REALISTS AND UTOPIANS -- IMAGINED COMMUNITIES -- CHAPTER 10 Charles de Gaulle and Charles Péguy: A Certain Idea of France -- PART IV History and Historians -- CHAPTER 11 Gabriel Hanotaux: An Historian in Politics -- HIS LIFE -- POLITICAL PRINCIPLES -- POLITICAL PRACTICE -- HISTORIAN -- BALANCE -- HISTORIAN IN POLITICS -- APPENDIX.

Hanotaux's Main Publications -- CHAPTER 12 The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary History: The First Fifty Years -- CHAPTER 13 Fernand Braudel: Historian of the "Longue Durée" -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM LORRAINE TO ALGERIA -- PREPARATION FOR THE MÉDITERRANÉE -- THE ANNALES SCHOOL -- BRAUDEL'S MASTERPIECE: LA MÉDITERRANÉE -- IN POWER -- BRAUDEL'S POLICY -- BRAUDEL AND STRUCTURALISM -- DIGNITAS WITHOUT OTIUM -- MATERIAL CIVILIZATION AND THE HISTORY OF FRANCE -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

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