Author: George Sand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"For more than seven centuries, companionship has conveyed a very noble conception of the skilled tradesman called manual, builder and creator, in relation to a certain idea of training and the transmission of knowledge. It offers an invitation to travel, the famous Tour de France, during which the future companion is trained, both professionally, morally and..."--Goodreads
Compagnon Du Tour de France
Author: George Sand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"For more than seven centuries, companionship has conveyed a very noble conception of the skilled tradesman called manual, builder and creator, in relation to a certain idea of training and the transmission of knowledge. It offers an invitation to travel, the famous Tour de France, during which the future companion is trained, both professionally, morally and..."--Goodreads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"For more than seven centuries, companionship has conveyed a very noble conception of the skilled tradesman called manual, builder and creator, in relation to a certain idea of training and the transmission of knowledge. It offers an invitation to travel, the famous Tour de France, during which the future companion is trained, both professionally, morally and..."--Goodreads
The Rites of Labor
Author: Cynthia Maria Truant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801482403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Rites of Labor is the only full account of the brotherhoods of compagnonnage, secret associations of French journeymen formed in the late medieval era and surviving into the nineteenth century. In this major contribution to French social history and the anthropology of work culture, Truant re-creates the compagnons? economic activities, their often violent clashes with one another, and the myths and rituals that sustained their bonds.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801482403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Rites of Labor is the only full account of the brotherhoods of compagnonnage, secret associations of French journeymen formed in the late medieval era and surviving into the nineteenth century. In this major contribution to French social history and the anthropology of work culture, Truant re-creates the compagnons? economic activities, their often violent clashes with one another, and the myths and rituals that sustained their bonds.
French Connections
Author: Andrew N. Wegmann
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real conceptualizations of “Frenchness” and “Frenchification,” this volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the development of French colonial societies and the collective identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit, Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this perspective, separate “spheres” of French colonial culture merge to reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new, progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L. Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range of concentrations.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real conceptualizations of “Frenchness” and “Frenchification,” this volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the development of French colonial societies and the collective identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit, Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this perspective, separate “spheres” of French colonial culture merge to reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new, progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L. Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range of concentrations.
Approaches to the History of Written Culture
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319541366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319541366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.
The Journalistic Imagination
Author: Richard Keeble
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134115059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
With an international focus, and a broad historical scope, this student-friendly book focuses on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, and explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and the literary qualities of journalism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134115059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
With an international focus, and a broad historical scope, this student-friendly book focuses on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, and explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and the literary qualities of journalism.
Inventing the Popular
Author: Bettina R. Lerner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317113195
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class writers during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a network of exchanges featuring newspapers, poems and prose fiction, these writers embraced a vision of popular culture that represented a clear departure from more traditional oral and printed forms of popular expression; at the same time, their writing strategically resisted nascent forms of mass culture, including the daily press and the serial novel. Coming into writing at a time when Romanticism had expanded beyond the borders of the lyric je, these poets explored the social dimensions of connectivity and social relation finding interlocutors and supporters in the likes of Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand and Eugène Sue. The relationships they developed among themselves and the major figures of an increasingly socially-oriented Romanticism were as rich with emancipatory promise as well as with reactionary temptation. They constitute an extensive archive of everyday life and utopian anticipation that reframe social romanticism as a revelatory if problematic model of engaged writing.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317113195
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class writers during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a network of exchanges featuring newspapers, poems and prose fiction, these writers embraced a vision of popular culture that represented a clear departure from more traditional oral and printed forms of popular expression; at the same time, their writing strategically resisted nascent forms of mass culture, including the daily press and the serial novel. Coming into writing at a time when Romanticism had expanded beyond the borders of the lyric je, these poets explored the social dimensions of connectivity and social relation finding interlocutors and supporters in the likes of Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand and Eugène Sue. The relationships they developed among themselves and the major figures of an increasingly socially-oriented Romanticism were as rich with emancipatory promise as well as with reactionary temptation. They constitute an extensive archive of everyday life and utopian anticipation that reframe social romanticism as a revelatory if problematic model of engaged writing.
Heritage Regimes and the State
Author: Bendix, Regina
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3863951220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3863951220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.
French Women Authors
Author: Kelsey Lee Haskett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
From the overwhelmingly Christian culture of the Middle Ages and pre-Enlightenment France to the wide diversity prevalent in (post)modern times, including the rise of Islam within French borders, a radical shift has permeated French society, a shift that is reflected in the work of the writers chosen for this book. Moreover, the sensitivity of women writers to the individual side of spiritual life, in contrast to the practices of organized religion, also emerges as a major trend, with women often being seen as a voice for social and religious change, or for a more meaningful, personal faith.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
From the overwhelmingly Christian culture of the Middle Ages and pre-Enlightenment France to the wide diversity prevalent in (post)modern times, including the rise of Islam within French borders, a radical shift has permeated French society, a shift that is reflected in the work of the writers chosen for this book. Moreover, the sensitivity of women writers to the individual side of spiritual life, in contrast to the practices of organized religion, also emerges as a major trend, with women often being seen as a voice for social and religious change, or for a more meaningful, personal faith.
Frenchmen into Peasants
Author: Leslie CHOQUETTE
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century.
The Sage’S Journey
Author: Alex Pettes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532045719
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
When Dewey sells his business and retires from full-time work at age fifty, he starts visiting the library. Its there that he meets a wise man named Mike who enjoys reading actual, tangible books. Here on the search for wisdom, are you? is the first question Mike asks. Dewey does not know it at the time, but hell be seeing lots more of Mikewholl end up having a profound impact on his life. Mike recognizes that Dewey is on a sages journey, which is lifes sixth and final stage. It is here that the leader has relinquished or given up his control, and instead searches for wisdom and insight so that he may provide this to others, he says. Mike agrees to serve as Deweys tour guide on the journey and gives him an Axiom coin with special markings and words. Dewey soon learns that the coin is magic and will allow him to meet and talk with many people who have walked down a path to gain wisdom. Join Dewey as he uses his magical coin to travel through time, meeting interesting characters who help him achieve his destiny.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532045719
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
When Dewey sells his business and retires from full-time work at age fifty, he starts visiting the library. Its there that he meets a wise man named Mike who enjoys reading actual, tangible books. Here on the search for wisdom, are you? is the first question Mike asks. Dewey does not know it at the time, but hell be seeing lots more of Mikewholl end up having a profound impact on his life. Mike recognizes that Dewey is on a sages journey, which is lifes sixth and final stage. It is here that the leader has relinquished or given up his control, and instead searches for wisdom and insight so that he may provide this to others, he says. Mike agrees to serve as Deweys tour guide on the journey and gives him an Axiom coin with special markings and words. Dewey soon learns that the coin is magic and will allow him to meet and talk with many people who have walked down a path to gain wisdom. Join Dewey as he uses his magical coin to travel through time, meeting interesting characters who help him achieve his destiny.