Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 2003-01-16. Hardcover. Good. 2003. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0199256462 9780199256464 [US]

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[Reading, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

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[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

ISBN10: 0199256462, ISBN13: 9780199256464, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. In this volume, a distinguished collection of historians and political scientists reflect on France's evolution as a political community from the nineteenth century to the present. France is often seen as a 'Jacobin' polity, committed to the principles of national unity and state centralization, a robust conception of patriotism, the promotion of a uniform and homogenous culture on its society, and the defence of the general interest against sectional concerns. Theoverall aims of the book are threefold: firstly to map out the key features of this 'Jacobin' model as it emerged in nineteenth century France; secondly to explore the institutional, political, andsocial realities which lay behind its rhetoric, and often subverted its grand objectives; and thirdly to offer an overview of the transformation of this French Jacobinism, as it has sought to adapt itself to such significant changes as the impact of successive wars, the establishment of republican government, the emergence of the welfare state, the drive towards European integration, and development of regionalism and multiculturalism. Among the principal themes of thebook are: the place of war in shaping republican political culture, the role of elites, the administrative structure of the French state, the definition of the principles of good citizenship, and thequestion of ...