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Article: Gerson, Stephane. The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Gerson, Stephane. The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003. Pp. 344, 24 illustrations. ISBN 0-8014-8873-7
The Pride of Place is a bold and successful attempt to analyze the commemoration of the pays, small provincial districts, of nineteenth-century France. Gerson treats the dynamic and tense relationship between local memories and national memories. He distinguishes his field of study from the "national and official memory" or "collective memory" (15) of Pierre Nora's Lieux de memoire. The work limits itself for the most part to the field of local memories in north-western France, in areas ...