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"The house of Belgium and its many houses - institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric - captured in a blend of social and cultural analysis that offers a microcosm of European society since World War II. Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable." - Eugen Weber.

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In the Belgian Chateau is a visit with one of America's most distinguished sociologists to a fascinating part of Europe in the last half of the twentieth century. -- Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of The Return of Martin Guerre
A marvelously vivid and insightful book! -- Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Peripheral Visions
Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable. -- Eugen Weber, author of My France
A remarkable intellectual discourse and a rare glimpse of European culture. Those people who know her work recognize Fox as an international treasure. -- Lee Gutkind, Editor, Creative Nonfiction * Library Journal *

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      Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9781566637121, 978-1566637121
      ISBN10: 1566637120

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      Book Synopsis
      "The house of Belgium and its many houses - institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric - captured in a blend of social and cultural analysis that offers a microcosm of European society since World War II. Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable." - Eugen Weber.

      Trade Review
      In the Belgian Chateau is a visit with one of America's most distinguished sociologists to a fascinating part of Europe in the last half of the twentieth century. -- Natalie Zemon Davis, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of The Return of Martin Guerre
      A marvelously vivid and insightful book! -- Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Peripheral Visions
      Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable. -- Eugen Weber, author of My France
      A remarkable intellectual discourse and a rare glimpse of European culture. Those people who know her work recognize Fox as an international treasure. -- Lee Gutkind, Editor, Creative Nonfiction * Library Journal *

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