Janet R Horne
Biographic Data
| ID | 690110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet R Horne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet R |
| FAMILY NAME | Horne |
| SIGNATURE | HORNE J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Global culture fronts
In January 1941, F.R. Cowell of the Spears Commission expressed the hope that the British and the Free French might ‘make some use of the wreckage of the Alliance Française now scattered around the world’. Although the Alliance was ‘hopelessly lost’ in places such as Japan and the Balkans, it was not, he argued, ‘justifiable to let the whole business go by default’. In this essay, the author adopts a global lens to analyse this putative ‘wreckage…
To Spread the French Language Is to Extend the Patrie ”
The Alliance Française was founded in 1883 to reinforce France's colonial ambitions in Tunisia and throughout the Mediterranean basin. Its focus on language as a tool of empire was unprecedented among the colonial powers. This article revisits that colonial past and examines the Alliance's role as a purveyor of colonial education during the early years of the Third Republic. Its founders envisioned modern France as an imperial republic that would…
Laurence Wylie and the French civilizing mission
What might the study of French in the United States have to do with the French civilizing mission? Why has the choice of French by American students been so gendered? What is, and what has been, the social significance of French studies in the United States? In this essay, I propose to sketch out a partial answer to such questions by placing Laurence Wylie’s work along a more extended continuum stretching back to 1894, when the Alliance Française…
Le Musee Social. Les origines de l'Etat-providence
A Social Laboratory for Modern France. The Musee Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
To Spread the French Language Is to Extend the Patrie ”
The Alliance Française was founded in 1883 to reinforce France's colonial ambitions in Tunisia and throughout the Mediterranean basin. Its focus on language as a tool of empire was unprecedented among the colonial powers. This article revisits that colonial past and examines the Alliance's role as a purveyor of colonial education during the early years of the Third Republic. Its founders envisioned modern France as an imperial republic that would…
Global culture fronts
In January 1941, F.R. Cowell of the Spears Commission expressed the hope that the British and the Free French might ‘make some use of the wreckage of the Alliance Française now scattered around the world’. Although the Alliance was ‘hopelessly lost’ in places such as Japan and the Balkans, it was not, he argued, ‘justifiable to let the whole business go by default’. In this essay, the author adopts a global lens to analyse this putative ‘wreckage…
Laurence Wylie and the French civilizing mission
What might the study of French in the United States have to do with the French civilizing mission? Why has the choice of French by American students been so gendered? What is, and what has been, the social significance of French studies in the United States? In this essay, I propose to sketch out a partial answer to such questions by placing Laurence Wylie’s work along a more extended continuum stretching back to 1894, when the Alliance Française…
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
A Social Laboratory for Modern France. The Musee Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Le Musee Social. Les origines de l'Etat-providence
Laurence Wylie and the French civilizing mission
What might the study of French in the United States have to do with the French civilizing mission? Why has the choice of French by American students been so gendered? What is, and what has been, the social significance of French studies in the United States? In this essay, I propose to sketch out a partial answer to such questions by placing Laurence Wylie’s work along a more extended continuum stretching back to 1894, when the Alliance Française…
To Spread the French Language Is to Extend the Patrie ”
The Alliance Française was founded in 1883 to reinforce France's colonial ambitions in Tunisia and throughout the Mediterranean basin. Its focus on language as a tool of empire was unprecedented among the colonial powers. This article revisits that colonial past and examines the Alliance's role as a purveyor of colonial education during the early years of the Third Republic. Its founders envisioned modern France as an imperial republic that would…
Global culture fronts
In January 1941, F.R. Cowell of the Spears Commission expressed the hope that the British and the Free French might ‘make some use of the wreckage of the Alliance Française now scattered around the world’. Although the Alliance was ‘hopelessly lost’ in places such as Japan and the Balkans, it was not, he argued, ‘justifiable to let the whole business go by default’. In this essay, the author adopts a global lens to analyse this putative ‘wreckage…
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