Paris and the Commune, 1871-78: The Politics of Forgetting (Cultural History of Modern War) by Colette E. Wilson - 2008-02-15

Manchester University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. Cultural History of Modern War. Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. Reprint. ; Illustrations & tables. ; 236 pages .

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. Bound in clean dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, this dated 2007 hardcover First Edition is Fine in Fine jacket (unclipped). x/236pp with 6 Chapters including 1:Introduction, 2:Le Monde illustre, 3:Du Camp's Paris, 4:Zola's 'art of memory', 5:Paris and the Commune in photographic imagination, 6;conclusion, and Bibliography and Index. 22 Black and white photos and illustration. All fine. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2007.

New. Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. -- .

Manchester University Press. Hardcover. New. 8x5x1.