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Mona Lisa's Escort

André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture

By: Herman Lebovics

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Mona Lisa's Escort

André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture

By: Herman Lebovics

Traveling in a First-Class Cabin on the luxury liner France early in 1963, the Western world's most famous painting sailed across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to the United States. The goodwill generated by the loan eased U.S.-French relations, which had soured over tensions stemming from the cold war. The mastermind behind the Mona Lisa's triumphant tour was France's newly appointed minister of cultural affairs, Andre Malraux. In this book, Herman Lebovics recounts how Malraux's brilliant foray into the realm of diplomacy was but one example of his efforts to employ France's cultural heritage in the service of a renewed national grandeur.

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Cornell University Press

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080143565X

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9780801435652

True France

The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945

By: Herman Lebovics

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The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945

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Cornell University Press

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1501731874

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Bringing the Empire Back Home

France in the Global Age

By: Herman Lebovics

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France in the Global Age

By: Herman Lebovics

Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France’s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s—including José Bové—dismantled the new local McDonald’s. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region’s primary market product. The two struggles—the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might—were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world. In Bringing the Empire Back Home, the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West’s most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France’s efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.

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Duke University Press

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0822386119

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9780822386117

Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

By: Herman Lebovics

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Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

By: Herman Lebovics

Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business and organized labor, the middle classes in Weimar Germany longed for a solution to their plight that neither the capitalism nor the socialism of their day could offer. This work examines the attempts of a number of scholars and publicists—Sombart, Salin, Spann, Niekisch, Spengler, and Fried-to provide such a solution in the form of an ideology of social conservatism. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400879035

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

By: Herman Lebovics

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

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Claims that liberalism tends to produce empires and empire kills or corrupts democracy in metropolitan "home" countries, using examples from British, French, and American imperial histories.

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Duke University Press

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0822336979

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True France

The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945

By: Herman Lebovics

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The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

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Claims that liberalism tends to produce empires and empire kills or corrupts democracy in metropolitan "home" countries, using examples from British, French, and American imperial histories.

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Bringing the Empire Back Home

France in the Global Age

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France in the Global Age

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DIVA study of the meaning of culture in contemporary France with an emphasis on anti-globalization and post-colonial regionalism./div

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0822332604

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Mona Lisa's Escort

André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture

By: Herman Lebovics

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Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

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Mona Lisa's Escort

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True France

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Bringing the Empire Back Home

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Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

True France

True France

Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

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Bringing the Empire Back Home

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Mona Lisa's Escort

Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933

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