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Future Tense : The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460258
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Future TenseDDC classification:
  • 944.0815
LOC classification:
  • DC389 -- .P36 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- "The Future": A Useful Category of Historical Analysis -- Machines for Being -- The City of the Future -- The Next War -- The Future Is a Foreign Country -- The International Language of the Future -- The Future's Remains -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- "The Future": A Useful Category of Historical Analysis -- Machines for Being -- The City of the Future -- The Next War -- The Future Is a Foreign Country -- The International Language of the Future -- The Future's Remains -- Notes -- Index.

In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was.

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