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Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century

Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century

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French HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521467705
ISBN13: 9780521467704
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 28 1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Peasant and French examines the relationship between French peasants and the development of the French national identity during the nineteenth century. Drawing on methods from cultural studies, social history and a broad range of literary and archival sources, Lehning argues that modern France has in part defined itself as different from the peasantry. Rather than seeing rural French history as a process in which peasants lose their identities and become French, he views it as an ongoing process of cultural contact in which both peasants and the French nation negotiate their identities in relation to the other. The book suggests a new kind of rural history that places the countryside in its national context rather than in isolation.

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