Recollections of France : : Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France /

Recollections of France : : Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France / / ed. by Jeanine Picard, Marion Demossier, Sarah Blowen.

Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the R...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Blowen, Sarah,
Bérard, Laurence,
Chappé, François,
Demossier, Marion,
Jenkins, Brian,
Joly, Marie-Hélène,
Marchenay, Philippe,
Milner, Susan,
Ménard, François,
Picard, Jeanine,
Portet, François,
Péron, Françoise,
Reynolds, Siân,
Warne, Chris,
Winter, Jay,
HerausgeberIn:
Blowen, Sarah,
Demossier, Marion,
Picard, Jeanine,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Contemporary France ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editorial Note
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Making Sense of the Present
  • 1. Reconstructing the past: in search of new ‘national identities’
  • 2. Recalling the past and recreating it: ‘museums actual and possible’
  • Part II. Memories Of War
  • 3. War museums in France
  • 4. Public history and the 'Historial' project 1986-1998
  • 5. Lest we forget: memories, history and the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère
  • Part III. Maritime Heritage
  • 6. Construction of a Breton maritime heritage: processes and signiÞcation
  • 7. Heritage and history: rocking the boat
  • 8. Hidden reefs: a case study of the Port-Rhu floating museum fiasco in Douarnenez
  • Part IV. Culinary Heritage
  • 9. Culinary heritage and produits de terroir in France: food for thought
  • 10. A market culture: produits de terroir or the selling of heritage
  • 11. Produits de terroir, between local identity and heritage
  • Part V. Urban Cultures And New Expressions
  • 12. Fast forward to the future? Cultural policies and the deÞnition of urban identities in the era of de-industrialisation
  • 13. Public policy and urban cultures in France
  • 14. The mean(ing of the) streets: reading urban cultures in contemporary France
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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