Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), cover edges jacket marginally faded. 292 pp. A compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris - a crucial era in the making of modern France. By examining the history of the body and medicine, Taithe shows how the French mobilized for the war effort, and how their ultimate defeat had devastating cultural and social consequences that led to the "fin de siecle spirit" (the feeling that society was in crisis and needed radical change).

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Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France [Medicine, Society, and the Birth of Modern France].

Publisher

Manchester University Press, Manchester

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0719056217

ISBN 13

9780719056215

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st ed.

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Dust Jacket Included

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Defeated Flesh is a study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. Taithe considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had social and cultural consequences. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it aims to revise the current debates on citizenship, centralization and modern warfare. The range of material and the author's mainly original approach will cast fresh light on the social aspirations behind the first socialist uprising in the world and on the fears of national decline so common in Western Europe before 1914.

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Bertrand Taithe is Senior Lecturer in French and British history at the University of Huddersfield -- .

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