Inventing the modern region Basque identity and the French nation-state
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Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 143.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
27.02.2024
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/14.5/1.8 cm
Gewicht
477 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5261-6925-9
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France's process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-'modern' province to the 'modern' region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.
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