The Place de la Bastille : the story of a quartier /

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Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reader, Keith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1900-2099
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Black authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Roman oriental (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la littérature.
Racisme dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
English fiction > Black authors.
Race relations.
Great Britain > Race relations.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Place de la Bastille
  • "What's that poor creature doing here?" : the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789
  • "Thought blew the Bastille apart" : the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789-1815
  • "The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered" : the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic years, 1815-1851
  • "Where is the noise of the storm that I love?" : The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune
  • "Satan's bagpipes" : La Belle Époque's forty-three years of peace
  • "Villains, stars and everybody in between" : The First War and the 'entre-deux-guerres'
  • "Slicked hair and splendid sideburns" : Occupation and Liberation
  • "Let's have some sun!" : post-Gaullism and the Mitterand years
  • "A building, not a monument" : the construction of the Bastille Opéra
  • "A real earthquake" : the impact of the Opéra on the 'quartier'
  • Flânerie in the archive : the Faubourg/Bastille today.

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