Archaeological arguments in national debates in late 19th-century France
Gabriel de Mortillet's La Formation de la nation française (1897)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3318669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalie Richard (0000-0002-9914-9600, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 291 |
| Pages | 177-184 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00089961 |
| OpenAlex | W2462419980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
Chauvinist reactions were rife in late 19th-century France, following the 1870 defeat to Prussia, the unification of Germany and the annexation of Alsace and part of Lorraine to the new empire. Besides their political manifestations, as in the creation of the Ligue des patriotes in 1882, these reactions also received intellectual expression. For most of the cultivated elites, the revelation of Prussian militarism came to negate the prevailing image of Germany as the cosmopolitan heartland of philosophy and of amodel university system. The French military defeat was interpreted as a sign of the political and moral weakness of the regime of Napoleon I11 (Renan 18711, but also as a wider symptom of intellectual inferiority, itself due to the inadequacies of the French educational and university structure. There ensued in intellectual circles a veritable 'German crisis of French thought' (Digeon 1959
Ancient history · Annexation · Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · German · Militarism · Political science · Politics · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |