Why France?
by Downs, Laura LeeFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-02-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary
France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. politica
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Medievalist and Francophile Despite Himself | p. 21 |
| A Mid-Atlantic Identity | p. 35 |
| Tough Love for France | p. 47 |
| Fantasy Meets Reality: A Midwesterner Goes to Paris | p. 61 |
| Defense d'afficher... | p. 73 |
| France for Belgium | p. 89 |
| Why Paris? | p. 99 |
| Catholic Connections, Jewish Relations, French Religion | p. 111 |
| Europe without Personal Angst | p. 123 |
| France, a Political Romance | p. 137 |
| Choosing History, Discovering France | p. 151 |
| An African American in Paris | p. 163 |
| Writing at the Margins | p. 177 |
| It's Not About France | p. 189 |
| Pilgrim's Progress: From Suburban Canada to Paris (via Montreal, Tokyo, and Tehran) | p. 203 |
| Between Douai and the U.S.A. | p. 215 |
| Afterword | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 233 |
| List of Contributors | p. 239 |
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