Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 1: The State Volume 1

by Pierre Nora and Pierre Birnbaum

Book Overview

Les Lieux de m moire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement" (The New Republic) and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their own past" (The Los Angeles Times). Written during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226591328
• ISBN13: 9780226591322
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.4"