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Author Nye, Robert A.

Title Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : the Medical Concept of National Decline.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages).
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; Contents; II Criminal Law, Medicine, and Justice in the Nineteenth Century.
Summary Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original t.
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Subject Public opinion -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Public opinion.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Deviant behavior -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Deviant behavior -- Public opinion.
Deviant behavior.
Physicians -- France -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians.
Degeneration -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Degeneration.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1870-1940
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nye, Robert A. Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France : The Medical Concept of National Decline. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400856275 (electronic book)
1400856272 (electronic book)