Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France - Hardcover

Taithe, Bertrand

 
9780719056215: Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France

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Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit.. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France. -- .

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Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester

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ISBN 10:  0719081262 ISBN 13:  9780719081262
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2010
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