Rural inventions : the French countryside after 1945 / Sarah Farmer.
2020
HT443.F7
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Title
Rural inventions : the French countryside after 1945 / Sarah Farmer.
ISBN
9780190079109 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
HT443.F7
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.72094409045
Summary
'Rural Inventions' looks at the transformation of rural France in the 1950s and 1960s when rapid modernization and explosive economic growth drove peasants from the countryside and eroded village traditions. It shows that the French responded not only with nostalgia but also by inhabiting the countryside in new ways. This text explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in 'going back to the land'; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. This work presents postwar rural France as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation.
Note
'Rural Inventions' looks at the transformation of rural France in the 1950s and 1960s when rapid modernization and explosive economic growth drove peasants from the countryside and eroded village traditions. It shows that the French responded not only with nostalgia but also by inhabiting the countryside in new ways. This text explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in 'going back to the land'; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. This work presents postwar rural France as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 7, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190079079
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