Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France

Taithe, Bertrand

ISBN 10: 0742500497 ISBN 13: 9780742500495

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 2001

Language: English

Condition: Used - Good Soft cover

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Book is clean and tight. First paperback edition. Black and white illustrations inside. Front cover has bent corner. Defeated Flesh is a compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris, a crucial turning po.

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Title: Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0742500497
ISBN 13: 9780742500495
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 2 pounds

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Defeated Flesh is a compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris, a crucial turning point in the making of modern France. By examining the history of the body and medicine, Taithe shows how the French mobilized for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had devastating cultural and social consequences that led to the fin de si_cle spirit.

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Bertrand Taithe is senior lecturer in Cultural History the University of Manchester.

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