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The Saint-Napoleon : celebrations of sovereignty in nineteenth-century France /

"Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a work that opens up broader questions about the nature of the French state, unity and lines of fracture in society, changing b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hazareesingh, Sudhir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a work that opens up broader questions about the nature of the French state, unity and lines of fracture in society, changing boundaries between public and private spheres, and the role of myth and memory in constructing nationhood. The state's Bonapartist identity was at times vigorously contested by local social, political, and religious groups. In various regions, people used the national day to celebrate their own communities and to honor their hometown veterans; but elsewhere, the revival of republican sentiment clashed sharply with imperial attitudes."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674038448
0674038444