{"product_id":"cult-of-the-modern-gavin-murray-miller-9780803290648","title":"The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cult of the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse. \u003ci\u003eThe Cult of the Modern \u003c\/i\u003eargues that the modern French republic is a product of nineteenth-century colonialism rather than a creation of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution. This analysis contests the predominant Parisian and metropolitan contexts that have traditionally framed French modernity studies, noting the important role that colonial Algeria and the administration of Muslim subjects played in shaping understandings of modern identity and governance among nineteenth-century politicians and intellectuals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In synthesizing the narratives of continental France and colonial North Africa, Murray-Miller proposes a new framework for nineteenth-century French political and cultural history, bringing into sharp relief the diverse ways in which the French nation was imagined and represented throughout the country's turbulent postrevolutionary history, as well as the implications for prevailing understandings of France today. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Murray-Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803290640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803290648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017","brand":"Gavin Murray-Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44254738874623,"sku":"9780803290648","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49895760-2fca-46ab-a0ac-9f2c9e13651b.jpg?v=1694614096","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cult-of-the-modern-gavin-murray-miller-9780803290648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}