Place and Locality in Modern France

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The Local in French History: Changing Paradigms and Possibilities
Part 1 Space
	1 The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France
		Th e exceptionality of Marseille
		Capital of the Levant
		Revolution and reconstruction
		Conclusion: France as empire
		References
	2 The Cartographic Language of Locality: Lessons from Alsace
		Revolutionizing space: Creating a rational order from a mosaic of localities
		Situating localities within regional and national space under German rule
		Aft er the Great War: Re-mapping local spaces as French
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	3 Gastronomic Burgundy as a Regional Modernization Project
		Introduction: Modernity and Burgundian modernization
		Region, regionality, and regionalism
		Gastronomic geographies
		Emplotment, emplacement, and embodiment
		Gastronomy as landscape; landscape as gastronomy
		Participation and performance
		References
	4 Imagining Greater France in the Provinces: The Strasbourg Colonial Exhibition of 1924
		Alsace and “ la plus grande France ”
		Th e organizing committee
		Alsace and Algeria at the exhibition
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5 Annales Historians ’ Contested Transformations of Locality
		Annales , place, and locality
		Annales ’ detractors on place and locality
		Retheorizing place and locality
		Prospects of place and locality aft er Annales
		Notes
		References
	6 A Local and Transnational Approach to Migration: The International Migration Service and its Marseilles Office in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 1
		Birth of a transnational migrant assistance network
		Th e Marseilles Offi ce: Operating at the local,national, and international levels
		Notes
		References
Part 2 Culture
	7 La Lorraine Artiste : Modernity, Nature, and the Nation in the Work of Émile Gallé and the École de Nancy
		The creation of the École de Nancy
		“ The contemporary naturalist style ”
		Classicism in question
		The “ children of the forest ”
		The problem of sources
		The Exposition d ’ art d é coratif, Nancy, 1904
		Notes
		References
	8 The Casbah des Oudaya: Th e Colonial Production of a Historic District in Morocco
		The political stakes of preservation
		The French production of a historic district
		Houses as heritage
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9 Facing the Nation: National Sentiment and National Belonging in the Wartime Writings of Iréne Némirovsky and Léon Werth
		References
	10 Remembering Oradour and Schirmeck: Struggles of Regional Memory and National Commemoration
		Introduction: A tale of two lieux de mémoire
		Oradour-sur-Glane: From the particular to the universal
		Schirmeck: Protecting the particular by promoting European unity
		Conclusion: Place particularity and “ locative thinking ”
		Notes
		References
	11 Judging a Book Town by Its Cover: Marketing French Villages du Livre
		Th e development of French book towns
		Designing a cover
			Books
			Engagement with the written word
			Local heritage
		Sibling rivalry . . . and support
		Ceci and Cela
		Notes
		References
	12 Our Cousins in the New World: Celebrating Mexico in the French Alps 1
		From the Valeia to the New World
		Sunny Mexico in Alpine Barcelonnette
		Mexico à la française
		Mexico in the French borderlands
		Notes
		References
Part 3 Politics
	13 Local Identities and Internal Migration: Networking as a Survival Strategy in Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary France
		Notes
		References
		Published sources
	14 Soldiers of the Pays : Localism and Nationalism in the Revolutionary Era Army
		Localism in the Old Regime army
		Regional mentalities among revolutionary troops
		Annexed territories and divided loyalties
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	15 From mal du pays to l ’amour du pays : Fatal Nostalgia and the Local in Nineteenth-century
		Le mal du pays
		L’amour du pays
		From pays to colonie
		Notes
		References
	16 An Uncertain Icon: The Changing Significance of the Croix Occitane in the Postwar Midi
		Decazeville: Patois and the pit
		Les ann é es 68 and Occitanie
		Tangled lines between Oc and vine
		Th e fightback
		Notes
		References
	17 Adoption and Adaptation: The Survival of French Départements
		Designing departments: Th e French revolutionary legacy
		Divide to unite: Th e departmental paradox
		Long-lasting entities
		When administrative entities turninto political institutions
			Equalization of the territory, equalization through the territory
			The incremental politicization of departments
		Acknowledgment
		References
	18 Lé Président ? Georges Freche and the Making of a Local Notable in Late Twentieth-century France1
		Making a socialist fi efdom: Power and populism
		Identity politics and the rapatrié s d ’ Algérie
		Place, locality, and personality: The manyworlds of Georges Frêche
		Notes
		References
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