Social & cultural history

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Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past.

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Author Biography

Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester. Colette E. Wilson is an independent researcher and lecturer in French literary and cultural studies. Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University

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  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date October 2016
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781526106582 / 1526106582
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 19.98 GBP
  • Pages256
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions216 x 138 mm
  • Illustration22 black & white illustrations, 3 tables
  • Biblio NotesIntroduction 1. Le Monde illustré: images between the lines 2. Du Camp's Paris: between history, memory and reportage 3. Zola's 'Art of Memory' 4. Paris and the commune in the photographic imagination Conclusion Appendix: Chronology of key events 1871-80 Bibliography Index
  • SeriesCultural History of Modern War

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