The cult of the modern : trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity /

The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examin...

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Main Author: Murray-Miller, Gavin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:France overseas.
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505 0 |a Introduction: The Cult of the Modern in the Nineteenth Century -- Imagining the Modern Community -- State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist Modernity -- Civilizing and Nationalizing -- The Crucible of Modern Society -- Old Ends and New Means -- Republican Government and Political Modernization -- Toward the Trans-Mediterranean Republic -- Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity. 
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