The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French ModernityU of Nebraska Press, 1 במאי 2017 - 317 עמודים The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. The Cult of the Modern argues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather 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 important role that colonial Algeria and the administration of Muslim subjects played in shaping understandings of modern identity and governance among nineteenth-century politicians and intellectuals. |
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Imagining the Modern Community | 15 |
State Modernization and the Making of Bonapartist | 53 |
Civilizing and Nationalizing | 81 |
The Crucible of Modern Society | 117 |
Old Ends and New Means | 153 |
Republican Government and Political Modernization | 183 |
Toward the TransMediterranean Republic | 209 |
The Second Empire and the Politics of Modernity | 247 |
Bibliography | 287 |
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