Peasants, Engineers, and Atomic Cathedrals
Narrating Modernization in Postwar Provincial France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Hecht (0000-0003-1445-0785, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-381 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286851 |
| OpenAlex | W2332709894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Since the end of World War II, technological prowess has proved a dominant theme in French political and cultural discourse about national identity and grandeur.' Postwar technocratic planners portrayed technological development as the ultimate embodiment of Frenchness and saw state-driven modernization as a means to unify, even homogenize, the French nation.2 More recently, the excitement surrounding feats such as the force de frappe, the Concorde, and Ariane, together with the relatively uncontested success of the nuclear power industry, has led many to conclude that the French have an undying passion for state-run technologies -a conclusion apparently
Economic history · Modernization theory · Political science · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |