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The Cult of the Nation in France : Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020726
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Cult of the Nation in FranceDDC classification:
  • 320.5/4/0944/09033
LOC classification:
  • DC121
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Constructing the Nation -- 1. The National and the Sacred -- 2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment -- 3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs -- 4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen -- 5. National Character and the Republican Imagination -- 6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible -- Conclusion: Toward the Present Day and the End of Nationalism -- Notes -- Note on Internet Appendices and Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Constructing the Nation -- 1. The National and the Sacred -- 2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment -- 3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs -- 4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen -- 5. National Character and the Republican Imagination -- 6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible -- Conclusion: Toward the Present Day and the End of Nationalism -- Notes -- Note on Internet Appendices and Bibliography -- Index.

In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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