Neither Reformers nor Réformés
The Construction of French Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11966286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Murray-Miller (0000-0003-4543-4980, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0315-7997 • E-ISSN: 1939-2419 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/hrrh.2014.400303 |
| OpenAlex | W2025192060 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Modernity has typically been considered a process consisting of “modernizing” \ninitiatives concerned with nation-building, industrial economic development, and new social \nand political practices associated with democratization. This article engages ongoing \ndebates regarding the import and meaning of modernity for historians and argues in favor \nof an historically situated understanding of the modern based upon an examination of \nsocial power and identity in post-revolutionary France. In particular, it assesses the transformation \nof social and political relationships in the nineteenth century as France embraced \nmass democracy and overseas imperial expansion in North Africa, arguing that modernity \nbecame a convenient means of preserving elite primacy and identity in an age increasingly \noriented toward egalitarianism, democratic participation, and the acquisition of global \nempires
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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