Eugen Weber

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.

The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Peasants Into Frenchmen

Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent.

Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages

Apocalypses

A social history of civilization in France in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.

France, Fin de Siècle

"A sourcebook exploring the main currents--and some fascinating eddies--of modern European philosophy, literature, theater, and art ... [This anthology] invite[s] the reader to sample the most provocative and intriguing expressions of the romantic, realist, fin-de-siècle, and pre-World War I states of mind, and then follow twentieth-century European culture through eight tumultuous decades of war, revolution, and the advent of mass-consumption society ... [Includes] section introductions and ... incisive notes that accompany each piece."--

Aspects of European Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Movements, Currents, Trends

Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages

The Western Tradition: From the ancient world to Louis XIV

"Presents an historical analysis of the forms of Fascism and National Socialism that existed and continue to exist ... compares and discusses the fundamental similarities and differences of Fascist, National Socialist, Communist, and Socialist movements in Europe during the years between World War I and World War II ... explains their theories, doctrines, ideologies, goals, and the methods employed to carry them into practice. The readings consist of official documents, reports, acts, and speeches"--Back cover.

Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century

Varieties of Fascism

A survey of France in the turbulent inter-war period, when millions rose from farm labor to business and manufacturing only to founder during the world-wide depression

France in the 1930s

The Hollow Years

Joan Palevsky Professor of Modern European History Emeritus Eugen Weber

Describes what daily life was like in turn of the century France, looks at the impact of new technology and social change, and discusses the theater, tourism, bicycles, bathing, art, and clothing

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