Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

by Christophe Guilluy

Book Overview

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"--one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300233760
• ISBN13: 9780300233766
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"