Author

Contributions

  • Nora, Pierre. - Contributor

Publication

2001 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

129,000 words, Guess

Page Count

516 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100226591328
  • ISBN-139780226591322
  • Goodreads963788
  • LibraryThing980905
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001000375
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC944
  • LCCDC33 .L6513 2001
  • LCCDC33.L6513 2001

Description

"Les Lieux de mémoire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement" (The New Republic) and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their own past" (The Los Angeles Times). Written during a time when French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series consists of essays by prominent historians and cultural commentators which take, as their points of departure, a lieu de mémoire: a site of memory used to order, concentrate, and secure notions of France's past. ... Taken as a whole, this extraordinary series documents how the French have come to see themselves and why."--Publisher description.

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Other Editions

  • Rethinking France =University of Chicago Press2001

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