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The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)

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The Cult of the Up to date specializes in nineteenth century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs all through the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic Gavin Murray Miller rethinks the topic by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse The Cult of the Up to date argues that the Up to date French republic is a product of nineteenth century colonialism moderately 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 essential role that colonial Algeria and the administration of Muslim subjects played in shaping understandings of Up to date 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 wherein the French nation was once imagined and represented all over the country s turbulent postrevolutionary history as well asthe implications for prevailing understandings of France nowadays

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