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Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross.
This work examines the decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized and fully industrial one.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262282628
- ISBN: 0262282623
- ISBN: 0585325170
- ISBN: 9780585325170
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "An October book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250), filmography (p. 251-253) , and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. La Belle Americaine. Car History. Moving Pictures. Cars, Couples, and Careers -- 2. Hygiene and Modernization. Housekeeping. Keeping House -- 3. Couples. The Great Divorce. The Making of the New French Middle Class. Neobourgeois Space -- 4. New Men. New Men and the Death of Man. Cadres. Immobile Time. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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