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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War Overview
A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France.
While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language.
Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail. He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers, scientists, soldiers, administrators, and intrepid tourists, of itinerant workers, pilgrims, and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals. We learn how France was explored, charted, and colonized, and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages.
The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France—past and present—remains to be discovered.
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Have relatively little to say about the history of Eric Hobsbawm "dual revolutions" (Industrial and French) because I'm pretty sure that I have just finished the first act of the morning. Hobsbawm appears to have the world in which we live now seen as a consequence of the double revolution, and it turns out his story slowly and carefully. The first volume treats the period from the beginning of the revolution, the logical culmination in the revolutions of 1848. The way in which he says Hobsbawmwere given to these revolutions, in a sense inevitable, as the French and Industrial revolutions play. The lives of the poor in the industrial city grew unbearable, he made the bourgeoisie as a class and power, the liberal policy, there are men like colliding atoms on the market, began his search for the unique design of the political right to be watching materialistic world, the only socially acceptable, industry and the rise of science, it is powered, art - in the persona Ruskin say - rebelled violently, and the dance continued throughout his perfection of form, in Karl Marx. (Says the man who has not read Marx embarrassment).
If I'm reading Hobsbawm, forced the mechanics of the twin revolutions going on all this, and forced its dissolution in 1848. His knowledge of history, is in the dirty details of their depth in this inevitability for him too far, but it seems in general terms, he believes that revolutions created doubleTensions that could only be resolved in a way. The powder keg exploded in the last sentence of this volume, a better joke, I refer to the second could not be developed.
Hobsbawm has a certain style that I do not pin down exactly, but it is difficult in many ways to penetrate. First, the mass of evidence makes impressive. But it's all in the form of drawings, with very few quotes from real people. This may be partly because I know the things that everyone expectseducated person should know if the latest reading has taught me anything, it is that I'm not particularly well educated.
An educated person should also address the situation, highly recursive structure of its paragraphs. He is a writer very top-down: He is the general point he wants to do, then dive into the details of each pause and refer to them in sub-paragraphs. He uses this for a couple of levels, and if you carefully you can connect them all. does not prose Hobsbawmneed to remind you where you started, as it moved along, leaving you.
stand the book would be better known, and this player would be happier if the most-to-read music at the end of each section were a for-further-reading, as the twin revolutions influenced the art, for example, it would be nice . As it stands, the book-crammed all the recommendations of the previous postscript, I did not know were there until maybe 2 / 3 of the way through.
All this is cavilling in the way, however. Hobsbawm is clear and convincing argument, and does an excellent job of synthesis of all European history during a period of 59 years in a book of 300 pages. I can not wait for the start of the left wing.
The age of revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Overview
Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This "Dual Revolution" created the modern world as we know it. Hobsbawm traces the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual Revolution - in the conduct of war and diplomacy; in the new industrial areas and on the land; among peasantry, bougeoise, and aristocracy; in methods of government and of revolution; in science, philosophy and religion; in literature and the arts. But above all he sees this as the period when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for a century.
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