France, 1848-1945. Volume 2 Intellect, taste and anxiety / by Theodore Zeldin
1977, 1st edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #404080
ISBN: 0198221258
Physical description; vii,1202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 1174-1180). Contents; Part I -- The national identity -- Provincials -- Attitudes to foreigners -- Education and hope -- Logic and verbalism -- Privilege and culture -- Universities -- Part II -- Good and bad taste -- Conformity and superstition -- Fashion and beauty -- Newspapers and corruption -- Science and comfort -- Happiness and humour -- Eating and drinking -- Part III -- Private lives -- Individualism and the emotions -- Worry, boredom and hysteria -- Hierarchy and violence -- Birth and death -- Religion and anticlericalism -- Technocracy -- Gerontocracy -- Hypocrisy -- Conclusion. Subjects; 1830-1945. Fires. Civilization history. Civilization. France Civilization 1830-1900. France Civilization 1901-1945. France. France Civilization 1901-. France History 19th century. France History 20th century. France Civilization 1830-1900. France Civilization 20th century.
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