Rural France
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Rural France
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Author : John Ardagh
language : en
Publisher: Salem House Publishers
Release Date : 1984
Rural France written by John Ardagh and has been published by Salem House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Peasant And French
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Author : James R. Lehning
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-28
Peasant And French written by James R. Lehning and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-28 with History categories.
Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.
The Modernization Of Rural France
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Author : Roger Price
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Modernization Of Rural France written by Roger Price and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with History categories.
This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data.
Rural Inventions
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Author : Sarah Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Rural Inventions written by Sarah Farmer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with History categories.
At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacities worldwide, inhabiting the French countryside had become an internationally-shared fantasy and practice. Accounts of moving into old farmhouses were bestsellers, and houses and barns built by peasants had been renovated as second homes throughout the rural hinterland. Such developments, Sarah Farmer argues, did not simply stem from nostalgia for a rural past or a desire to invest in real estate. Rather, they defined new versions of the rural that emerge in post-agrarian societies. In post-World War II France, cutting-edge technological modernization and explosive economic growth uprooted rural populations and eroded the village traditions of a largely peasant nation. And yet, this book argues, rural France did not vanish in the sweeping transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. The French responded to the collapse of peasant society and threats to cherished landscapes by devising new ways of inhabiting the countryside, making them the sites of change and adaptation. In addition to the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences, Rural Inventions explores the utopian experiments in rural communes and in "going back to the land"; environmentalism; the extraordinary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. The peasantry as a social class may have died out, but the countryside persisted, valued as a site not only for agriculture but increasingly for sport and leisure, tourism, social and political engagement, and a natural environment worth protecting. The postwar French state and the nation's rural and urban inhabitants, Sarah Farmer eloquently shows, remade the French countryside in relation to the city and to the world at large, not only invoking traditional France but also creating a vibrant and evolving part of the France yet to come.
Bonne Chance
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Author : Richard Wiles
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2006-04-10
Bonne Chance written by Richard Wiles and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-10 with Travel categories.
Deep in the Limousin countryside, Richard Wiles bought his dream home. But he didn’t anticipate renovating the dilapidated farmhouse during the insect plagues of summer and the harsh blizzards of winter. Told with humour and optimism, this is a unique tale of overcoming the formidable challenges of building a home, and a life, in France.
Toujours La France
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Author : Janine Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2022-04-28
Toujours La France written by Janine Marsh and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Four Seasons in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and husband Mark have renovated their dream home and built a new life for themselves, adjusting to the delights and the peculiarities of life in a small French village. Including much-loved village characters such as Mr and Mrs Pepperpot, Jean-Claude, Claudette and the infamous Bread Man, in Toujours la France! Janine also introduces readers to some new faces and funny stories, as she and Mark continue their lives in this special part of northern France. With fantastic food, birthday parties, rural traditions old and new - Jean-Claude introduces snail racing to the village - and trouble with uninvited animals, there is never a quiet moment in the Seven Valleys.
Peasants Into Frenchmen
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Author : Eugen Weber
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1976
Peasants Into Frenchmen written by Eugen Weber and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Social Science categories.
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.
Shaping Modern Times In Rural France
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Author : Susan Carol Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Shaping Modern Times In Rural France written by Susan Carol Rogers and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with History categories.
Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she focuses on the French farming community of "Ste Foy" during a period of rapid change (1945-75). Using ethnographic field data and archival material that she collected as a "participant-observer," she finds an intriguing puzzle: an allegedly archaic social form, the ostal, has become increasingly common in the community. The ostal, a type of family farm organized around an extended "stem family" household, is a variant of the stem family systems associated with preindustrial southern Europe. How have Ste Foyans continued to remake this "archaic" mode as their community grew more prosperous and more involved in national and international markets? In showing how the specific identity of a community is reproduced rather than obliterated by modernization, the author reveals dialectical relationships between structure and change, history and culture, and the centralized nation-state and regional diversity. This analysis addresses anthropologists, historians, and scholars interested in local politics and economic development.
Industry And Politics In Rural France
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Author : Raymond Anthony Jonas
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994
Industry And Politics In Rural France written by Raymond Anthony Jonas and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Men stayed on the farms, and women departed for the mills.
Communism In Rural France
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Author : John Bulaitis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2008-09-30
Communism In Rural France written by John Bulaitis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-30 with Political Science categories.
The French Communist Party has traditionally been identified with the urban working class but paradoxically its position as France's main left-wing party was dependent upon support from the countryside. "Communism in Rural France" explores for the first time the party's complex and often misunderstood relationship with agricultural labourers.During 1936 and 1937 a bitter struggle between agricultural workers and farmers swept through parts of the French countryside. Coinciding with the urban 'social explosion' which followed the victory of the Popular Front government, the strikes, farm occupations and increased unionisation panicked farmers and shocked right-wing opinion, which blamed the spread of the 'corrupting' collectivist influences of urban society into the countryside on the French Communist Party."Communism in Rural France" traces the evolution and characteristics of the agricultural workers' movement from the turn of the 20th century through the inter-war years, as well as the response of the government and the resistance organised by farmers during 1936-37. By focussing on agricultural workers, John Bulaitis sheds light on a section of the rural population that has been generally overlooked in French rural and labour history. "Communism in Rural France" explores their relationship with the French Communist Party and illuminates an important and previously neglected aspect of European politics.