Author: A. Menon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333981626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It also provides a critical assessment of these policies. It argues that France's arms-length relationship with NATO's integrated military structure served its purpose during the Cold War, but increasingly came to impose high costs thereafter.
France, NATO and the Limits of Independence 1981-97
Author: A. Menon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333981626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It also provides a critical assessment of these policies. It argues that France's arms-length relationship with NATO's integrated military structure served its purpose during the Cold War, but increasingly came to impose high costs thereafter.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333981626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It also provides a critical assessment of these policies. It argues that France's arms-length relationship with NATO's integrated military structure served its purpose during the Cold War, but increasingly came to impose high costs thereafter.
Rivals and Conspirators
Author: Fae Brauer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386370X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Once the State-run Salon in Paris closed, an array of independent Salons mushroomed starting with the French Artists Salon and Women’s Salon in 1881 followed by the Independent Artists’ Salon, National Salon of Fine Arts and Autumn Salon. Offering an unparalleled choice of art identities and alliances, together with undreamed-of opportunities for sales, commissions, prizes and art criticism, these great Salons guaranteed the centripetal and centrifugal power of Paris as the “modern art centre”. Lured by the prospect of being exhibited annually in Salons the size of Biennales today, a huge number and national diversity of artists, from the Australian Rupert Bunny to the Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, flocked to Paris. Yet by no means were these Salons equal in power, nor did they work consensually to forge this “modern art centre”. Formed on the basis of their different cultural politics, constantly they rivalled one another for State acquisitions and commissions, exhibition places and spaces, awards, and every other means of enhancing their legitimacy. By no means were the avant-garde salons those that most succeeded. Instead, as this culturo-political history demonstrates, the French Artists’ and National Fine Art Salons were the most successful, with the genderist French Artists' Salon being the most powerful and “official”. Despite the renown today of Neo-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism, the most powerful artists in this “modern art centre” were not Sonia Delaunay, Émile Gallé, Paul Signac, Henri Matisse or even Picasso but such Academicians as Léon Bonnat, William Bouguereau, Fernand Cormon, Edouard Detaille, Gabriel Ferrier, Jean-Paul Laurens, Luc-Oliver Merson and Aimé Morot, who exhibited at the “official” Salon supported by the machinery of the State. In its exposure of the rivalry, conflict and struggle between the Salons and their artists, this is an unprecedented history of dissension. It also exposes how, just below the welcoming internationalist veneer of this “modern art centre”, intense persecutionist paranoia lay festering. Whenever France’s “civilizing mission” seemed culturally, commercially or colonially threatened, it erupted in waves of nationalist xenophobia turning artistic rivalry into bitter enmity. In exposing how rivals became transmuted into conspirators, ultimately this book reveals a paradox resonant in histories that celebrate the international triumph of French modern art: that this magnetic “centre”, which began by welcoming international modernists, ended by attacking them for undermining its cultural supremacy, contaminating its “civilizing mission” and politically persecuting the very modernist culture for which it has received historical renown.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386370X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Once the State-run Salon in Paris closed, an array of independent Salons mushroomed starting with the French Artists Salon and Women’s Salon in 1881 followed by the Independent Artists’ Salon, National Salon of Fine Arts and Autumn Salon. Offering an unparalleled choice of art identities and alliances, together with undreamed-of opportunities for sales, commissions, prizes and art criticism, these great Salons guaranteed the centripetal and centrifugal power of Paris as the “modern art centre”. Lured by the prospect of being exhibited annually in Salons the size of Biennales today, a huge number and national diversity of artists, from the Australian Rupert Bunny to the Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, flocked to Paris. Yet by no means were these Salons equal in power, nor did they work consensually to forge this “modern art centre”. Formed on the basis of their different cultural politics, constantly they rivalled one another for State acquisitions and commissions, exhibition places and spaces, awards, and every other means of enhancing their legitimacy. By no means were the avant-garde salons those that most succeeded. Instead, as this culturo-political history demonstrates, the French Artists’ and National Fine Art Salons were the most successful, with the genderist French Artists' Salon being the most powerful and “official”. Despite the renown today of Neo-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism, the most powerful artists in this “modern art centre” were not Sonia Delaunay, Émile Gallé, Paul Signac, Henri Matisse or even Picasso but such Academicians as Léon Bonnat, William Bouguereau, Fernand Cormon, Edouard Detaille, Gabriel Ferrier, Jean-Paul Laurens, Luc-Oliver Merson and Aimé Morot, who exhibited at the “official” Salon supported by the machinery of the State. In its exposure of the rivalry, conflict and struggle between the Salons and their artists, this is an unprecedented history of dissension. It also exposes how, just below the welcoming internationalist veneer of this “modern art centre”, intense persecutionist paranoia lay festering. Whenever France’s “civilizing mission” seemed culturally, commercially or colonially threatened, it erupted in waves of nationalist xenophobia turning artistic rivalry into bitter enmity. In exposing how rivals became transmuted into conspirators, ultimately this book reveals a paradox resonant in histories that celebrate the international triumph of French modern art: that this magnetic “centre”, which began by welcoming international modernists, ended by attacking them for undermining its cultural supremacy, contaminating its “civilizing mission” and politically persecuting the very modernist culture for which it has received historical renown.
Climatological Data
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2460
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2460
Book Description
D-Day and the Liberation of France
Author: John Davenport
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131763
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Describes how the largest and most powerful armada of warships left southern England on the morning of June 6, 1944 for one mission, invade France and liberate it from the occupation by Nazi Germany. This remarkable struggle would determine the fate of Western Europe during World War II.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131763
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Describes how the largest and most powerful armada of warships left southern England on the morning of June 6, 1944 for one mission, invade France and liberate it from the occupation by Nazi Germany. This remarkable struggle would determine the fate of Western Europe during World War II.
The International Who's Who of Women 2002
Author: Elizabeth Sleeman
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781857431223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Over 5,500 detailed biographies of the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world today.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781857431223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Over 5,500 detailed biographies of the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world today.
Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996
Author: Avner Ben-Amos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This is an interdisciplinary study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French Revolution and the death of François Mitterand. Its aim is to explain how the funerals of such prominent figures as Voltaire, Napoleon, Gambetta, Hugo, and de Gaulle became major public events that helped to mould the national memory. Combining the insights of anthropologists and sociologists with a historical analysis, it argues that the dual character of the ceremony, a political festival and final rite of passage, turned the state funeral into a gripping event to which few French people could remain indifferent. The book focuses on the republican tradition of state funerals, which emerged in the French Revolution and has continued through the Fifth Republic. Whether in power or in opposition, the republicans used the funerals of their leaders and militants to educate the masses and mobilize public support. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of French state funerals, is also a major contribution to the study of republican culture.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This is an interdisciplinary study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French Revolution and the death of François Mitterand. Its aim is to explain how the funerals of such prominent figures as Voltaire, Napoleon, Gambetta, Hugo, and de Gaulle became major public events that helped to mould the national memory. Combining the insights of anthropologists and sociologists with a historical analysis, it argues that the dual character of the ceremony, a political festival and final rite of passage, turned the state funeral into a gripping event to which few French people could remain indifferent. The book focuses on the republican tradition of state funerals, which emerged in the French Revolution and has continued through the Fifth Republic. Whether in power or in opposition, the republicans used the funerals of their leaders and militants to educate the masses and mobilize public support. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of French state funerals, is also a major contribution to the study of republican culture.
Let's Go Paris 14th Edition
Author: Let's Go Inc.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312360887
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips:CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and danceRELIABLE MAPS to help you navigate the metro, the RER, and all the arrondissementsTHEMED ITINERARIES for the scholar, the spendthrift, and the sybariteINSIDER TIPS on everything from crêpes to cafés and clubsNIGHTLIFE advice on where to see and be seen, and how to stay safe while you're thereEXPANDED COVERAGE of volunteer and work opportunities
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312360887
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips:CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and danceRELIABLE MAPS to help you navigate the metro, the RER, and all the arrondissementsTHEMED ITINERARIES for the scholar, the spendthrift, and the sybariteINSIDER TIPS on everything from crêpes to cafés and clubsNIGHTLIFE advice on where to see and be seen, and how to stay safe while you're thereEXPANDED COVERAGE of volunteer and work opportunities
Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Author: Jacob Mundy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804795835
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new theories of civil conflict and terrorism after the Cold War. Such "lessons of Algeria" now contribute to a diverse array of international efforts to manage conflict—from development and counterterrorism to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and transitional justice. With this book, Jacob Mundy raises a critical lens to these lessons and practices and sheds light on an increasingly antipolitical scientific vision of armed conflict. Traditional questions of power and history that once guided conflict management have been displaced by neoliberal assumptions and methodological formalism. In questioning the presumed lessons of 1990s Algeria, Mundy shows that the problem is not simply that these understandings—these imaginative geographies—of Algerian violence can be disputed. He shows that today's leading strategies of conflict management are underwritten by, and so attempt to reproduce, their own flawed logic. Ultimately, what these policies and practices lead to is not a world made safe from war, but rather a world made safe for war.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804795835
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new theories of civil conflict and terrorism after the Cold War. Such "lessons of Algeria" now contribute to a diverse array of international efforts to manage conflict—from development and counterterrorism to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and transitional justice. With this book, Jacob Mundy raises a critical lens to these lessons and practices and sheds light on an increasingly antipolitical scientific vision of armed conflict. Traditional questions of power and history that once guided conflict management have been displaced by neoliberal assumptions and methodological formalism. In questioning the presumed lessons of 1990s Algeria, Mundy shows that the problem is not simply that these understandings—these imaginative geographies—of Algerian violence can be disputed. He shows that today's leading strategies of conflict management are underwritten by, and so attempt to reproduce, their own flawed logic. Ultimately, what these policies and practices lead to is not a world made safe from war, but rather a world made safe for war.
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description