Title The cult of the modern : trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity / Gavin Murray-Miller.

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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

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Series	France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization
Summary	"The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. The Cult of the Modern argues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather than a creation of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. This analysis contests the predominant Parisian and metropolitan contexts that have traditionally framed French modernity studies, noting the important role that colonial Algeria and the administration of Muslim subjects played in shaping understandings of modern identity and governance among nineteenth-century politicians and intellectuals. In synthesizing the narratives of continental France and colonial North Africa, Murray-Miller proposes a new framework for nineteenth-century French political and cultural history, bringing into sharp relief the diverse ways in which the French nation was imagined and represented throughout the country's turbulent postrevolutionary history, as well as the implications for prevailing understandings of France today"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The Cult of the Modern in the Nineteenth Century -- Imagining the Modern Community -- State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist Modernity -- Civilizing and Nationalizing -- The Crucible of Modern Society -- Old Ends and New Means -- Republican Government and Political Modernization -- Toward the Trans-Mediterranean Republic -- Conclusion: The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity.
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Subject	France -- Relations -- Algeria.
	France.
	Relations.
	Algeria.
	Algeria -- Relations -- France.
	Algeria -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century.
	Colonization.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	France -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century.
	Colonies.
	Administration.
	Social change -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Social change.
	Nationalism -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Nationalism.
	Politics and culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Politics and culture.
	France -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	Politics and government.
	France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Intellectual life.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Murray-Miller, Gavin. Cult of the modern. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017 9780803290648 (DLC) 2016029053
ISBN	9781496200297 (epub)
	1496200292 (epub)
	9781496200303 (mobi)
	1496200306 (mobi)
	9781496200310 (pdf)
	1496200314 (pdf)
	9780803290648 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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