Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern FranceDefeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit.. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship, centralisation and modern warfare.. Looking at many untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-1871 became such an important phase in the making of modern France. |
Contents
Tables | 1 |
Figures and tables | 7 |
an overview | 25 |
medicine war and revolution in Paris | 46 |
Paris the giant hospital | 71 |
Paris region in 1870 La Guerre illustrée offprint n d 45 | 87 |
The politics of care and order | 99 |
Lange Verdeil Skeleton of a Marauder Shot Among the Cabbages | 122 |
A Darjou The Looting and Massacre of Bazeilles by the Bavarians | 161 |
analytical breakdown | 173 |
the severed limbs of the nation | 180 |
You need regiments to guard corpses | 197 |
Pension rights awarded after the | 203 |
alcohol and syphilis | 208 |
Breakdown of the people evicted from Paris in August 1870 | 221 |
war stories | 233 |
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Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France Bertrand Taithe No preview available - 2010 |
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