{"product_id":"why-france-american-historians-reflect-on-an-enduring-fascination-9780801444142","title":"Why France  American Historians Reflect on an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy France?\u003c\/i\u003e is a mirror of intelligence in which France may see itself reflected.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jean-Frederic Schaub * Rue 89 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn entertaining and thought-provoking series of meditations... The tales from the archive become new ways to understand how individual scholarship is shaped by and can in turn shape intellectual trends.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeffrey Jackson * Modern and Contemporary France *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance, eternal and changing, is examined without concessions, especially in its relationship with the U.S. A beautiful, two-way history lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Laurent Theis * Le Point *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese historians are not afraid to open up and reveal their sensibility, even their sensuality. They express the richness of their historical vocation and the gains of a self-discovery that is made possible or intensified by distance and alterity. Their confidences, sometimes colored by tenderness, express candidly an attachment to France that changes form across time.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alain Corbin * Le Monde *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lively, funny, insightful essays, caught between the objective approach of historical reality and a fuzzier, unstable sentimental perspective, make up a photo album of postwar France.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rogert Maggiori * Liberation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis eminently readable book is a must-read for all teachers of French civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tom Conner * French Review *","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577472192855,"sku":"9780801444142","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801444142.jpg?v=1746095453","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-france-american-historians-reflect-on-an-enduring-fascination-9780801444142","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}