Timothy Baycroft
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Baycroft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Baycroft |
| SIGNATURE | BAYCROFT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
L'occupation allemande de la France (1870-1873)
Les termes du traité de Francfort qui mit fin à la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870 établirent l'occupation par l'Allemagne, fraîchement unifiée, de dix-neuf départements français ; une occupation qui, pour certains départements, allait durer plus de deux ans jusqu'en septembre 1873. Cet article étudie les conditions de cette occupation qui n'ont, jusqu'ici, reçu qu'une attention limitée dans les travaux universitaires. Il analyse tout particuliè…
A French Jesuit in China: The Case of André Yverneau 1948-1951
During the many centuries of interaction and exchange between China and Europe, one of the most complex and ambiguous relationships was that of the Catholic Church and its missionaries in China. On one hand, they contributed to and can be seen as a part of the European imperial project of world colonisation, but on the other hand, they were instrumental in sharing and exchanging knowledge, as well as creating schools and other institutions in the…
The balloon post during the siege of Paris, 1870–71
This article investigates the development of balloon and pigeon-sent microfilm, both for military purposes and as a propaganda technique in besieged Paris in 1870–1871. It examines the aerial press used to communicate with the provinces, to help coordinate the actions of the French army, and to boost civilian morale. It analyses the content and reception of material sent in these ways and its effect on the mood in Paris, the objectives of the aut…
War and Industry: Lille at the Crossroads
This article examines the city of Lille as a point of cultural, economic, social and political intersection between the Low Countries and France. It focuses particularly on the effects of the industrial revolution and the occupation of the region during the First and Second World Wars, in terms of changing patterns of migration, trade, social exchange and cultural and linguistic practice, as well as the influence of political thinking, involvemen…
Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century
The growth of nations, national ideologies and the accompanying quest for the ‘authentic’ among ‘the people’ has been a subject of enquiry for many disciplines. Building upon wide-ranging scholarship, this interdisciplinary study seeks to analyse the place of folklore in the long nineteenth century throughout Europe as an important symbol in the growth and development of nations and nationalism, and in particular to see how combining perspectives…
Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century
French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France
Although not titles as such, his is a dictionary of French Historians is a collection of 42 essays on individual French historians, ranging alphabetically from Maurice Agulhon to Michel Vovelle and chronologically from Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) to Henry Rousso (b 1954), and including 14 still living at the time of publication. The essays present, contextualise and evaluate the contribution made by each historian to scholarship. Each essay also in…
Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944
Translated from the original French publication which came out in 1993, Art of the Defeat presents the political and institutional context aginst which art was produced in the years of occupation. Through a series of chronologically organised chapters, Dorléac covers the context in which art was produced, the ideas of the German occupiers and their censors, the ways in which the occupation authorities sought to defend and protect French artists, …
France from 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis
Celestin and DalMolin have written an interesting and thoughtful general cultural history of France over a 150-year period, organized as a wide-ranging narrative, that covers many types of cultural events, movements and personalities, linking them into the general flow of French history. Notwithstanding the subtitle, however, their central unifying theme, universalism, frequently disappears from view. Taking universalism partly as the belief that…
La Bourgogne et ses vins: Image d'origine controlee
Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophesians
At first glance, Napoleon's Sorcerers appears to be a narrow study of one particular sub-group within French Freemasonry fascinated with Egypt, but Darius A Spieth's study has much to interest historians on a wide variety of topics. He shows how the fascination with Egypt had its expression in the arts, sciences and letters, spanning the period from the ancien régime through to the Restoration, and the work has repercussions for those interested …
Border regions and identity
This article examines a number of models for the formation of spatial, ‘geo-political’ and ‘geo-cultural’ identities that have emerged since the publication of Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, and asks how effectively these approaches can be applied to border regions. The article focuses on two contrasting case studies: French Flanders, and the Adriatic port of Trieste and its immediate hinterland. The first is a region located by a relativ…
The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders
This article examines the local reactions to the Versailles negotiations and final settlement along the north-eastern frontier of France, discussing both immediate reactions to the post-war conditions, as well as longer-term trends in identity formation within the region. It shows that the practical considerations of rebuilding after the war outweighed desire for revenge upon Germany, and that on average they were less interested in forcing Germa…
Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830-1945
1University of Sheffield Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830–1945 David AllenHarvey DekalbNorthern Illinois University Press 2001xii + 249£33.95 0 87580 271 0
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
Changing identities in the Franco-Belgian borderland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Journal Article CHANGING IDENTITIES IN THE FRANCO-BELGIAN BORDERLAND IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Get access TIMOTHY BAYCROFT TIMOTHY BAYCROFT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 1999, Pages 417–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/13.4.417 Published: 01 December 1999
Short notices
ATTALI, J., Verbatim Vol. III, Part 1 1988–1989, Part 2 1990–1991, Fayard Livre de poche, 1998, Part 1 485 pp., Part 2 483 pp., 50F. each, ISBN 2 213 59424 4 AUBRAC, R., The French Resistance 1940–1944, Nazan Pocket Archives, 1997, 197 pp., 60F., ISBN 2 85025 567 X CAILLAT, M., René Payot. Un regard ambigu sur la guerre, Georg Editeur, 1998, 479 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 8257 0605 1 CHALINE, J.‐P., La Restauration, PUF, 1998, 128 pp., 42F.,…
Commemorations of the revolution of 1848 and the second republic
To understand why the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic have so small a place in French collective memory, this study examines previous commemorations, monuments, and the uses of 1848 in political debates. The centenary celebrations in 1948 are examined in detail, as are other ways in which 1848 was remembered by different groups within the French political spectrum, and an attempt is made to explain why neither the ruling republicans no…
France and Modernity
The French Republic, 1879–1992 . By Maurice Agulhon. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. 500. £45.00. The republic of De Gaulle, 1958–1969 . By Serge Berstein. Translated by Peter Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 281. £30.00. Louis Loucheur and the shaping of modern France, 1916–1931 . By Stephen D. Carls. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. 416. £42.75. The French sec…
Peasants into Frenchmen? The case of the Flemish in the north of France 1860–1914
According to Eugen Weber's classic thesis, peasants assimilated into the French nation between 1870 and 1914, when local languages and customs succumbed to the combined effects of economic modernisation and Republican integration (education, conscription...). Tim Baycroft analyses this model, which remains generally valid, for the Flemish peasants of northern France. He distinguishes political integration from linguistic and cultural assimilation…
Border regions and identity
This article examines a number of models for the formation of spatial, ‘geo-political’ and ‘geo-cultural’ identities that have emerged since the publication of Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, and asks how effectively these approaches can be applied to border regions. The article focuses on two contrasting case studies: French Flanders, and the Adriatic port of Trieste and its immediate hinterland. The first is a region located by a relativ…
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
Peasants into Frenchmen? The case of the Flemish in the north of France 1860–1914
According to Eugen Weber's classic thesis, peasants assimilated into the French nation between 1870 and 1914, when local languages and customs succumbed to the combined effects of economic modernisation and Republican integration (education, conscription...). Tim Baycroft analyses this model, which remains generally valid, for the Flemish peasants of northern France. He distinguishes political integration from linguistic and cultural assimilation…
France and Modernity
The French Republic, 1879–1992 . By Maurice Agulhon. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. 500. £45.00. The republic of De Gaulle, 1958–1969 . By Serge Berstein. Translated by Peter Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 281. £30.00. Louis Loucheur and the shaping of modern France, 1916–1931 . By Stephen D. Carls. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. 416. £42.75. The French sec…
Commemorations of the revolution of 1848 and the second republic
To understand why the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic have so small a place in French collective memory, this study examines previous commemorations, monuments, and the uses of 1848 in political debates. The centenary celebrations in 1948 are examined in detail, as are other ways in which 1848 was remembered by different groups within the French political spectrum, and an attempt is made to explain why neither the ruling republicans no…
Changing identities in the Franco-Belgian borderland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Journal Article CHANGING IDENTITIES IN THE FRANCO-BELGIAN BORDERLAND IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Get access TIMOTHY BAYCROFT TIMOTHY BAYCROFT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 1999, Pages 417–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/13.4.417 Published: 01 December 1999
Short notices
ATTALI, J., Verbatim Vol. III, Part 1 1988–1989, Part 2 1990–1991, Fayard Livre de poche, 1998, Part 1 485 pp., Part 2 483 pp., 50F. each, ISBN 2 213 59424 4 AUBRAC, R., The French Resistance 1940–1944, Nazan Pocket Archives, 1997, 197 pp., 60F., ISBN 2 85025 567 X CAILLAT, M., René Payot. Un regard ambigu sur la guerre, Georg Editeur, 1998, 479 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 8257 0605 1 CHALINE, J.‐P., La Restauration, PUF, 1998, 128 pp., 42F.,…
Degrees of Foreignness’ and the Construction of Identity in French border regions during the inter-war period
This paper presents a comparative study of the development of national and regional identities in three different border regions of France: the Basses-Alpes, the Moselle and French Flanders. It demonstrates that in spite of political, economic and social differences between the regions, the presence of the border and interaction with foreigners in specifically border regions similarly influenced identity formation in interwar France. In each case…
Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830-1945
1University of Sheffield Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830–1945 David AllenHarvey DekalbNorthern Illinois University Press 2001xii + 249£33.95 0 87580 271 0
The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders
This article examines the local reactions to the Versailles negotiations and final settlement along the north-eastern frontier of France, discussing both immediate reactions to the post-war conditions, as well as longer-term trends in identity formation within the region. It shows that the practical considerations of rebuilding after the war outweighed desire for revenge upon Germany, and that on average they were less interested in forcing Germa…
La Bourgogne et ses vins: Image d'origine controlee
Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophesians
At first glance, Napoleon's Sorcerers appears to be a narrow study of one particular sub-group within French Freemasonry fascinated with Egypt, but Darius A Spieth's study has much to interest historians on a wide variety of topics. He shows how the fascination with Egypt had its expression in the arts, sciences and letters, spanning the period from the ancien régime through to the Restoration, and the work has repercussions for those interested …
Border regions and identity
This article examines a number of models for the formation of spatial, ‘geo-political’ and ‘geo-cultural’ identities that have emerged since the publication of Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, and asks how effectively these approaches can be applied to border regions. The article focuses on two contrasting case studies: French Flanders, and the Adriatic port of Trieste and its immediate hinterland. The first is a region located by a relativ…
France from 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis
Celestin and DalMolin have written an interesting and thoughtful general cultural history of France over a 150-year period, organized as a wide-ranging narrative, that covers many types of cultural events, movements and personalities, linking them into the general flow of French history. Notwithstanding the subtitle, however, their central unifying theme, universalism, frequently disappears from view. Taking universalism partly as the belief that…
Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944
Translated from the original French publication which came out in 1993, Art of the Defeat presents the political and institutional context aginst which art was produced in the years of occupation. Through a series of chronologically organised chapters, Dorléac covers the context in which art was produced, the ideas of the German occupiers and their censors, the ways in which the occupation authorities sought to defend and protect French artists, …
French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France
Although not titles as such, his is a dictionary of French Historians is a collection of 42 essays on individual French historians, ranging alphabetically from Maurice Agulhon to Michel Vovelle and chronologically from Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) to Henry Rousso (b 1954), and including 14 still living at the time of publication. The essays present, contextualise and evaluate the contribution made by each historian to scholarship. Each essay also in…
Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century
The growth of nations, national ideologies and the accompanying quest for the ‘authentic’ among ‘the people’ has been a subject of enquiry for many disciplines. Building upon wide-ranging scholarship, this interdisciplinary study seeks to analyse the place of folklore in the long nineteenth century throughout Europe as an important symbol in the growth and development of nations and nationalism, and in particular to see how combining perspectives…
Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century
War and Industry: Lille at the Crossroads
This article examines the city of Lille as a point of cultural, economic, social and political intersection between the Low Countries and France. It focuses particularly on the effects of the industrial revolution and the occupation of the region during the First and Second World Wars, in terms of changing patterns of migration, trade, social exchange and cultural and linguistic practice, as well as the influence of political thinking, involvemen…
The balloon post during the siege of Paris, 1870–71
This article investigates the development of balloon and pigeon-sent microfilm, both for military purposes and as a propaganda technique in besieged Paris in 1870–1871. It examines the aerial press used to communicate with the provinces, to help coordinate the actions of the French army, and to boost civilian morale. It analyses the content and reception of material sent in these ways and its effect on the mood in Paris, the objectives of the aut…
L'occupation allemande de la France (1870-1873)
Les termes du traité de Francfort qui mit fin à la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870 établirent l'occupation par l'Allemagne, fraîchement unifiée, de dix-neuf départements français ; une occupation qui, pour certains départements, allait durer plus de deux ans jusqu'en septembre 1873. Cet article étudie les conditions de cette occupation qui n'ont, jusqu'ici, reçu qu'une attention limitée dans les travaux universitaires. Il analyse tout particuliè…
A French Jesuit in China: The Case of André Yverneau 1948-1951
During the many centuries of interaction and exchange between China and Europe, one of the most complex and ambiguous relationships was that of the Catholic Church and its missionaries in China. On one hand, they contributed to and can be seen as a part of the European imperial project of world colonisation, but on the other hand, they were instrumental in sharing and exchanging knowledge, as well as creating schools and other institutions in the…
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