Boucheron France in the World

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80533-392-0
Verlag: Pushkin Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 1360 Seiten

A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015.Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle - the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilised a generation of French left-wing activists.France in the World combines the intellectual rigour of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will inspire Francophiles and scholars alike.

Patrick Boucheron, born in 1965, is a French historian. He previously taught medieval history at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris, and is currently a professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of twelve books and the editor of five, including France in the World, which became a bestseller in France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boucheron, Patrick

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Kuntz, Jane

Pernsteiner, Alexis

Roberts, Anthony

Wood, Willard

Leseproben

Preface to the English-Language Edition STÉPHANE GERSON

Overture PATRICK BOUCHERON

EARLY STIRRINGS IN ONE CORNER OF THE WORLD

34,000 BCE — Creating the World Deep inside the Earth FRANÇOIS BON

23,000 BCE — Man Gives Himself the Face of a Woman FRANÇOIS BON

12,000 BCE — Climate Unhinged and Art Regenerated BORIS VALENTIN

5800 BCE — From the Plenitude of Eastern Wheat Fields JEAN-PAUL DEMOULE

600 BCE — Marseille: A Greek Outpost in Gaul? VINCENT AZOULAY

500 BCE — The Last of the Celts LAURENT OLIVIER

52 BCE — Alésia: The Meaning of Defeat YANN POTIN

FROM ONE EMPIRE TO ANOTHER

48 — Gauls in the Roman Senate ANTONY HOSTEIN

177 — Eastern Christianity’s Eldest Daughter? VINCENT PUECH

212 — Romans Like the Rest MAURICE SARTRE

397 — St. Martin: Gaul’s Hungarian Patron Saint STÉPHANE GIOANNI

511 — The Franks Choose Paris as Their Capital MAGALI COUMERT

719 — Africa Knocks on the Franks’ Door FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE

800 — Charlemagne, the Empire, and the World MARIE-CÉLINE ISAÏA

THE FEUDAL ORDER TRIUMPHS

842–843 — When Languages Did Not Make Kingdoms MICHEL BANNIARD

882 — A Viking in the Carolingian Family? PIERRE BAUDUIN

910 — A Network of Monasteries ISABELLE ROSÉ

987 — The Election of the King Who Did Not Make France MICHEL ZIMMERMANN

1051 — An Early Franco-Russian Alliance OLIVIER GUYOTJEANNIN

1066 — Normans in the Four Corners of the World FLORIAN MAZEL

1095 — The Frankish East FLORIAN MAZEL

1105 — Troyes, a Talmudic Capital JULIETTE SIBON

1137 — A Capetian Crosses the Loire FANNY MADELINE

1143 — “The Execrable Muhammad” DOMINIQUE IOGNA-PRAT

FRANCE EXPANDS

1202 — Four Venetians at the Champagne Fairs MATHIEU ARNOUX

1214 — The Two Europes, and the France of Bouvines PIERRE MONNET

1215 — Universitas: The “French Model” ALAIN DE LIBERA

1247 — The Science of Water Management in Thirteenth-Century France JEAN-LOUP ABBÉ

1270 — Saint Louis Is Born in Carthage YANN POTIN

1282 — “Death to the French!” FLORIAN MAZEL

1287 — Gothic Art Imperiled on the Sea ÉTIENNE HAMON

1336 — The Avignon Pope Is Not in France ÉTIENNE ANHEIM

THE GREAT MONARCHY OF THE WEST

1347 — The Plague Strikes France JULIEN LOISEAU

1357 — Paris and Europe in Revolt AMABLE SABLON DU CORAIL

1380 — An Image of the World in a Library YANN POTIN

1420 — The Marriage of France and England YANN POTIN

1446 — An Enslaved Black Man in Pamiers HÉLÈNE DÉBAX

1456 — Jacques Coeur Dies in Chios MATTHIEU SCHERMAN

1484 — A Turkish Prince in Auvergne NICOLAS VATIN

1494 — Charles VIII Goes to Italy — and Loses the World PATRICK BOUCHERON

1515 — Whatever Led Him to Marignano? AMABLE SABLON DU CORAIL

1534 — Jacques Cartier and the New Lands YANN LIGNEREUX

1536 — From Cauvin to Calvin JÉRÉMIE FOA

1539 — The Empire of the French Language PATRICK BOUCHERON

1550 — The Normans Play Indians YANN LIGNEREUX

1572 — Saint Bartholomew’s Season PHILIPPE HAMON

1610 — The Political Climate in Baroque France STÉPHANE VAN DAMME

ABSOLUTE POWER

1633 — Descartes Is the World! STÉPHANE VAN DAMME

1659 — Spain Cedes Supremacy and Cocoa to France JEAN-FREDERIC SCHAUB

1662 — Dunkirk, Nest of Spies RENAUD MORIEUX

1682 — Versailles, Capital of French Europe PAULINE LEMAIGRE-GAFFIER

1683 — 1492, French-Style? JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHAUB

1685 — France Revokes the Edict of Nantes, All of Europe Reverberates PHILIPPE JOUTARD

1686 — Siam: A Missed Opportunity ROMAIN BERTRAND

1712 — The Thousand and One Nights: Antoine Galland’s Forgery SYLVETTE LARZUL

1715 — Persians at the Court of Louis XIV THIERRY SARMANT

1720 — Law and Disorder FRANÇOIS VELDE

ENLIGHTENMENT NATION

1751 — All the World’s Knowledge JEAN-LUC CHAPPEY

1763 — A Kingdom for an Empire YANN LIGNEREUX

1769 — The World’s a Conversation ANTOINE LILTI

1771 — Beauty and the Beast: An Opéra Comique at the Court of France MÉLANIE TRAVERSIER

1784 — Sade: Imprisoned and Universal ANNE SIMONIN

1789 — The Global Revolution ANNIE JOURDAN

1790 — Declaring Peace on Earth SOPHIE WAHNICH

1791 — Plantations in Revolution MANUEL COVO

1793 — Paris, Capital of the Natural World HÉLÈNE BLAIS

1794 — The Terror in Europe GUILLAUME MAZEAU

A HOMELAND FOR A UNIVERSAL REVOLUTION

1795 — “The Republic of Letters Shall Give Birth to Republics” JULIEN VINCENT

1798 — Conquest(s) of Egypt JULIEN LOISEAU

1804 — Many Nations under One Code of Law JEAN-LOUIS HALPÉRIN

1804 — The Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte THIERRY SARMANT

1808 — Napoleon and Spain: An Atlantic Affair GENEVIÈVE VERDO

1815 — Museums of Europe, Year Zero BÉNÉDICTE SAVOY

1816 — The Year without a Summer JEAN-BAPTISTE FRESSOZ AND FABIENLOCHER

1825 — Rescuing Greece HERVÉ MAZUREL

1832 — France in the Time of Cholera NICOLAS DELALANDE

1840 — Utopian Year FRANÇOIS JARRIGE

1842 — Literature for the Planet JÉRÔME DAVID

1848 — Paris, Revolution Ground Zero QUENTIN DELUERMOZ

1852 — Penal Colonization JEAN-LUCIEN SANCHEZ

GLOBALIZATION IN THE FRENCH STYLE

1858 — A Land of Visions GUILLAUME CUCHET

1860 — The Other Free Trade Country DAVID TODD

1863 — “Algeria Shall Be an Arab Kingdom” CLAIRE FREDJ

1869 — The Inauguration of the Suez Canal VALESKA HUBER

1871 — Local Revolution, Global Myth QUENTIN DELUERMOZ

1875 — Measuring the World NICOLAS DEIALANDE

1883 — From the Zambezi to the Corrèze, a Single World Language? PIERRE SINGARAVÉLOU

1889 — Order and Progress in the Tropics MAUD CHIRIO

1891 — Pasteurizing the French Empire GUILLAUME LACHENAL

1892 — “Nobody Is Innocent!” JENNY RAFLIK

1894 — Dreyfus, a European Affair ARNAUD-DOMINIQUE HOUTE

1900 — France Hosts the World CHRISTOPHE CHARLE

1903 — French Science Enlightened by Radioactivity NATALIE PIGEARD-MICAULT

MODERNIZING IN TROUBLED TIMES

1907 — A Modern Art Manifesto LAURENCE BERTRAND DORLÉAC

1913 — A Promenade for the English SYLVAIN VENAYRE

1914 — From the Great War to the First World War BRUNO CABANES

1917 — The View from New Caledonia ALBAN BENSA

1919 — Two World-Changing Conferences EMMANUELLE SIBEUD

1920 — “If You Would Have Peace, Cultivate Justice” BRUNO CABANES

1921 — Chanel — A Woman’s Scent...