Herman Lebovics
Biographic Data
| ID | 280166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Lebovics |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebovics |
| SIGNATURE | LEBOVICS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5618-4270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
In the diaspora, not dead: Africa’s heritages in French museums
There have always been pressures from within French society and from Africa for the restitution of items of African cultural patrimoine. Newly elected President Macron announced that it was time to return items of African cultural heritage. He appointed a commission to report what, how, and when. The article traces these recommendations, resistance to them, and outcomes. As of this writing, almost nothing has been returned. And the pandemic has h…
Biology and culture at the reinvented Musée de l’Homme
After being closed for renovations for six years, the ‘reinvented’ Musée de l’Homme reopened in October 2015 with a completely new layout and narrative. Its principal account is that, while biological evolution guided human development, culture must be taken into account. With this explanation it makes the new biocultural turn. Throughout, the permanent exhibitions insist that members of humanity, as we know it, are one, and at the same time we a…
Rashomon on the Mediterranean: Conflicting memories for creating France's future identity
This study begins by evoking Akira Kurosawa’s meditation in Rashomon (1951) on the disparities of the stories told by self-interested participants in a highly-charged emotional incident. The article looks at similar contradictions, evasions, ambiguities, and even intersections of several narratives of how France’s cultural and political relationship to other nearby lands, especially those around the Mediterranean, propose what each speaker would …
The future of the nation foretold in its museums
With the opening of several new musées de la société in France we gain an exceptionally rich and revelatory way of understanding the society-wide debates about what France is and what it should be in the new millennium. Each of the museums discussed offers pieces of the contested stories of a new France in a new age. Taken together, they ask whether it is possible, or even desirable, today to tell a single and teleological national narrative, the…
Building the History Museum to Stop History: Nicolas Sarkozy’s New Presidential Museum of French History
When he ran for president in 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy promised to build a museum of French history. He declared that he was troubled by the lack of a coherent account of the nation’s great moments and great heroes. On being elected, he started the planning process, finally settling on the Hôtel de Soubise, part of the Archives nationales, as the site of the future Maison de l’histoire de France. Although his project was supported by a certain number …
Du folklore à l'ethnologie
Le passage des études de folklore à l'ethnologie en France s'est fait dans la période troublée qui va du Front populaire à la Libération. Le folklore scientifique se construit de manière ambivalente, dans le cadre d'une politique culturelle qui fait la part belle aux traditions régionales : à la fois ouverte sur la modernité, et fascinée par un passé volontiers idéalisé. Avec l'avènement du régime de Vichy, le folklore devient l'instrument de la …
Will the Musée du Quai Branly show France the way to postcoloniality
France has, arguably, struggled to negotiate its colonial history more than any other former colonial power. This article questions the declared purpose of the Quai Branly Museum to be France's first new museum of the twenty-first century, exploring its conceptualization, the complicated political and scholarly debates its opening triggered. The Quai Branly Museum wants to be a museum, but neither of purely art objects nor of social artifacts (mo…
Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies
The MusÃ(c)e du Quai Branly: Art? Artifact? Spectacle
Designed by Jean Nouvel, the Musée du Quai Branly, the just-opened museum of African, Amerindian, Pacific, and Asian cultures, covers a city block on the Left Bank of Paris's museum row. Both in landscaping and internal layout, Nouvel wished to frame the building within his understanding of the cultures on display inside, but also within its setting in the metropolitan capital. Objects collected in the imperial age now are displayed in what Frenc…
Mona Lisa's Escort. Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Une «nouvelle histoire culturelle» ? La politique de la différence chez les historiens américains
■ Herman Lebovics : Une «nouvelle histoire culturelle» ? La politique de la différence chez les historiens américains Ce que les historiens américains appellent la «Nouvelle histoire culturelle» est né, face à la crise et à l'effondrement du marxisme occidental, comme un nouveau projet possible de libération. Transgressant les frontières nationales et disciplinaires, ce courant entend aller au-delà de l'accent mis sur la classe sociale et la fami…
CHAPTER XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Economic Positivism as Rhetoric
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Assimilation ou respect des différences? La colonisation du Vietnam, 1920-1930
Lebovics Herman, Testa Chantal. Assimilation ou respect des différences? La colonisation du Vietnam, 1920-1930. In: Genèses, 4, 1991. Le national, sous la direction de Gérard Noiriel. pp. 23-43
The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism
The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism
Donner à voir l'Empire colonial. L'Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris en 1931
Lebovics Herman. Donner à voir l’Empire colonial. L’Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris en 1931. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°7, 1989. pp. 18-28
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Sessions on biographical approaches to reform in the Third Republic, feminine sociability in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, France in the world economy under the Third Republic, the Mitterrand years, and a luncheon talk by Robert Paxton on rural fascism in the 1930s were some of the panels of interest to historians of French labor at this large conference, held in Baltimore on November 19-22, 1986. Topics covered by the panel on feminin…
Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République
Lebovics Herman, Jamin Jean, Lenclud Gérard. Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°4, 1988. pp. 3-17
"Weder Kommunismus noch Kapitalismus": Burgerliche Sozialreform in Deutschland vom Vormarz bis zur Ara Adenauer
Changing Consciousness, Values, and Culture in Advanced Industrial Societies
The well-organized and well-conceived Fifth International Conference of Europeanists held in Washington, D.C. over the weekend of October 18, 1985, offered a set of wide-ranging panels which in various ways addressed themselves to two connected themes: the search for a third way in Western Europe between a discredited communist orthodoxy and a faltering social democracy, and, finding ways to deepen democracy from social relations to the shop floo…
Protection Against Labor Troubles: The Campaign of the Association de l'Industrie Française for Economic Stability and Social Peace During the Great Depression, 1880–96
By introducing an economic cycle of a new sort in Europe the Great Depression of 1873–96 encouraged the alignment of iron and textile industrialists’ interests with those of the great growers and livestock raisers. The French version, perhaps best labelled the alliance of cotton and wheat, is the concern here, for since profits and sales for both agriculture and industry traced parallel curves, for the first time in French history, representative…
The Uses of America in Locke's Second Treatise of Government
Mittelstand, Demokratie und Nationalsozialismus: Die politische Entwicklung von Handwerk und Kleinhandel in der Weimarer Republik. Heinrich August Winkler
Agrarians” Versus “Industrializers”: Social Conservative Resistance to Industrialism and Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century Germany
In his book Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution Thorstein Veblen argued that the relative lateness of the advent of German industrialization permitted her to avoid “the penalty of taking the lead”. She could borrow on a massive scale from the accumulated knowledge and technology of already industrialized societies. While this judgment may hold true on the purely technological level, it is not true that German society made the transitio…
The Uses of America in Locke's Second Treatise of Government
Biology and culture at the reinvented Musée de l’Homme
After being closed for renovations for six years, the ‘reinvented’ Musée de l’Homme reopened in October 2015 with a completely new layout and narrative. Its principal account is that, while biological evolution guided human development, culture must be taken into account. With this explanation it makes the new biocultural turn. Throughout, the permanent exhibitions insist that members of humanity, as we know it, are one, and at the same time we a…
The future of the nation foretold in its museums
With the opening of several new musées de la société in France we gain an exceptionally rich and revelatory way of understanding the society-wide debates about what France is and what it should be in the new millennium. Each of the museums discussed offers pieces of the contested stories of a new France in a new age. Taken together, they ask whether it is possible, or even desirable, today to tell a single and teleological national narrative, the…
In the diaspora, not dead: Africa’s heritages in French museums
There have always been pressures from within French society and from Africa for the restitution of items of African cultural patrimoine. Newly elected President Macron announced that it was time to return items of African cultural heritage. He appointed a commission to report what, how, and when. The article traces these recommendations, resistance to them, and outcomes. As of this writing, almost nothing has been returned. And the pandemic has h…
Building the History Museum to Stop History: Nicolas Sarkozy’s New Presidential Museum of French History
When he ran for president in 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy promised to build a museum of French history. He declared that he was troubled by the lack of a coherent account of the nation’s great moments and great heroes. On being elected, he started the planning process, finally settling on the Hôtel de Soubise, part of the Archives nationales, as the site of the future Maison de l’histoire de France. Although his project was supported by a certain number …
Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République
Lebovics Herman, Jamin Jean, Lenclud Gérard. Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°4, 1988. pp. 3-17
Will the Musée du Quai Branly show France the way to postcoloniality
France has, arguably, struggled to negotiate its colonial history more than any other former colonial power. This article questions the declared purpose of the Quai Branly Museum to be France's first new museum of the twenty-first century, exploring its conceptualization, the complicated political and scholarly debates its opening triggered. The Quai Branly Museum wants to be a museum, but neither of purely art objects nor of social artifacts (mo…
The MusÃ(c)e du Quai Branly: Art? Artifact? Spectacle
Designed by Jean Nouvel, the Musée du Quai Branly, the just-opened museum of African, Amerindian, Pacific, and Asian cultures, covers a city block on the Left Bank of Paris's museum row. Both in landscaping and internal layout, Nouvel wished to frame the building within his understanding of the cultures on display inside, but also within its setting in the metropolitan capital. Objects collected in the imperial age now are displayed in what Frenc…
Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
The European Right: A Historical Profile . Eugen Weber , Hans Rogger
Agrarians” Versus “Industrializers”: Social Conservative Resistance to Industrialism and Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century Germany
In his book Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution Thorstein Veblen argued that the relative lateness of the advent of German industrialization permitted her to avoid “the penalty of taking the lead”. She could borrow on a massive scale from the accumulated knowledge and technology of already industrialized societies. While this judgment may hold true on the purely technological level, it is not true that German society made the transitio…
Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933
Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business and organized labor, the middle classes in Weimar Germany longed for a solution to their plight that neither the capitalism nor the socialism of their day could offer. This work examines the attempts of a number of scholars and publicists—Sombart, Salin, Spann, Niekisch, Spengler, and Fried-to provide s…
Agrarische Interessenpolitik und Preussischer Konservatismus im Wilhelminischen Reich (1893-1914): Ein Beitrag zur Analyse des Nationalismus in Deutschland am Beispiel des Bundes der Landwirte und der…
The Controversy over German Industrialization, 1890-1902 . Kenneth D. Barkin
Mittelstand, Demokratie und Nationalsozialismus: Die politische Entwicklung von Handwerk und Kleinhandel in der Weimarer Republik. Heinrich August Winkler
Changing Consciousness, Values, and Culture in Advanced Industrial Societies
The well-organized and well-conceived Fifth International Conference of Europeanists held in Washington, D.C. over the weekend of October 18, 1985, offered a set of wide-ranging panels which in various ways addressed themselves to two connected themes: the search for a third way in Western Europe between a discredited communist orthodoxy and a faltering social democracy, and, finding ways to deepen democracy from social relations to the shop floo…
Protection Against Labor Troubles: The Campaign of the Association de l'Industrie Française for Economic Stability and Social Peace During the Great Depression, 1880–96
By introducing an economic cycle of a new sort in Europe the Great Depression of 1873–96 encouraged the alignment of iron and textile industrialists’ interests with those of the great growers and livestock raisers. The French version, perhaps best labelled the alliance of cotton and wheat, is the concern here, for since profits and sales for both agriculture and industry traced parallel curves, for the first time in French history, representative…
The Uses of America in Locke's Second Treatise of Government
"Weder Kommunismus noch Kapitalismus": Burgerliche Sozialreform in Deutschland vom Vormarz bis zur Ara Adenauer
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Sessions on biographical approaches to reform in the Third Republic, feminine sociability in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, France in the world economy under the Third Republic, the Mitterrand years, and a luncheon talk by Robert Paxton on rural fascism in the 1930s were some of the panels of interest to historians of French labor at this large conference, held in Baltimore on November 19-22, 1986. Topics covered by the panel on feminin…
Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République
Lebovics Herman, Jamin Jean, Lenclud Gérard. Le conservatisme en anthropologie et la fin de la Troisième République. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°4, 1988. pp. 3-17
The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism
Donner à voir l'Empire colonial. L'Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris en 1931
Lebovics Herman. Donner à voir l’Empire colonial. L’Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris en 1931. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°7, 1989. pp. 18-28
Assimilation ou respect des différences? La colonisation du Vietnam, 1920-1930
Lebovics Herman, Testa Chantal. Assimilation ou respect des différences? La colonisation du Vietnam, 1920-1930. In: Genèses, 4, 1991. Le national, sous la direction de Gérard Noiriel. pp. 23-43
The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism
Economic Positivism as Rhetoric
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
CHAPTER XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Une «nouvelle histoire culturelle» ? La politique de la différence chez les historiens américains
■ Herman Lebovics : Une «nouvelle histoire culturelle» ? La politique de la différence chez les historiens américains Ce que les historiens américains appellent la «Nouvelle histoire culturelle» est né, face à la crise et à l'effondrement du marxisme occidental, comme un nouveau projet possible de libération. Transgressant les frontières nationales et disciplinaires, ce courant entend aller au-delà de l'accent mis sur la classe sociale et la fami…
Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Mona Lisa's Escort. Andre Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture
Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies
The MusÃ(c)e du Quai Branly: Art? Artifact? Spectacle
Designed by Jean Nouvel, the Musée du Quai Branly, the just-opened museum of African, Amerindian, Pacific, and Asian cultures, covers a city block on the Left Bank of Paris's museum row. Both in landscaping and internal layout, Nouvel wished to frame the building within his understanding of the cultures on display inside, but also within its setting in the metropolitan capital. Objects collected in the imperial age now are displayed in what Frenc…
Du folklore à l'ethnologie
Le passage des études de folklore à l'ethnologie en France s'est fait dans la période troublée qui va du Front populaire à la Libération. Le folklore scientifique se construit de manière ambivalente, dans le cadre d'une politique culturelle qui fait la part belle aux traditions régionales : à la fois ouverte sur la modernité, et fascinée par un passé volontiers idéalisé. Avec l'avènement du régime de Vichy, le folklore devient l'instrument de la …
Will the Musée du Quai Branly show France the way to postcoloniality
France has, arguably, struggled to negotiate its colonial history more than any other former colonial power. This article questions the declared purpose of the Quai Branly Museum to be France's first new museum of the twenty-first century, exploring its conceptualization, the complicated political and scholarly debates its opening triggered. The Quai Branly Museum wants to be a museum, but neither of purely art objects nor of social artifacts (mo…
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