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very good price-clipped dust-jacket on each volume, with some wear around edges or small tears, two volumes, very light pencil check marks in margins of a few pages in volume two, otherwise very good thick lightly used blue cloth with light wear or rubbing to covers, some foxing on top foredges. LAID IN: review slip in volume one, publication date Sept. 10, 1973. ZELDIN, THEODORE. France, 1848-1945 - TWO VOLUMES: Ambition, love and politics - Intellect, taste, and anxiety. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1973, 1977, 1973, 823, 1202pp., . CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE. Ambition, love and politics. Introduction -- Part I -- The pretensions of the bourgeoisie -- Doctors -- Notaries -- The rich -- Industrialists -- Bankers -- The ambitions of ordinary men -- Bureaucrats -- Peasants -- Workers -- Part II -- Marriage and morals -- Children -- Women -- Part III -- The place of politics in life -- Kings and aristocrats -- The genius in politics -- Republicanism -- Bonapartism -- The politicians of the Third Republic -- Opportunism -- Solidarism -- Radicalism -- Socialism - VOLUME TWO: Intellect, taste, and anxiety. Part I -- The national identity -- Provincials -- Attitudes to foreigners -- Education and hope -- Logic and verbalism -- Privilege and culture -- Universities -- Part II -- Good and bad taste -- Conformity and superstition -- Fashion and beauty -- Newspapers and corruption -- Science and comfort -- Happiness and humour -- Eating and drinking -- Part III -- Private lives -- Individualism and the emotions -- Worry, boredom and hysteria -- Hierarchy and violence -- Birth and death -- Religion and anticlericalism -- Technocracy -- Gerontocracy -- Hypocrisy -- Conclusion. 9780198221043 9780198221258 ISBN 0198221045 0198221258. Seller Inventory # 98133
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Title: France, 1848-1945 - TWO VOLUMES: Ambition, ...
Publisher: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1973, 1977, 1973
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
