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In this study Dominick LaCapra addresses the ongoing concern with the application of theory - namely that of literary studies and linguistics - to contemporary historical research and analysis. History and Reading is an attempt to address the concerns of those scholars who either resist theoretical discussions or disavow the use of interdisciplinary study. LaCapra begins with an extensive discussion of the problem of reading and interpretation as it relates to the understanding of history. The focus then moves to two classic texts that serve as case studies: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Old RTgime and the French Revolution" and Michel Foucault's "Folie et dTraison: Histoire de la folie + l'+ge classique" (partially translated into English as "Madness and Civilization"). In the final chapter, LaCapra deals with the problem of rethinking and reconfiguring French studies, suggesting how this discipline could itself profit from the theoretical innovations for which it has been so important a conduit in the last few decades. LaCapra offers sensitive readings of Tocqueville and Foucault, authors who present vastly different narrative strategies and modes of analysis. Looking at these and other theorists whose work addresses the writing and understanding of history, he considers how their distinctive textual practices have transformed standard modes of interpretation and analysis. A distinguished and widely respected European historian, LaCapra offers a sophisticated consideration of how to combine textual analysis with traditional historical practices, and shows how this practice can be brought to bear on French studies and help to shape its future directions

Literature and history. --- History --- Historiography --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Methodology. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --- Foucault, Michel, --- France --- Study and teaching. --- Historiography. --- Folie et deraison (Foucault, Michel) --- Ancien regime et la Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Old Regime and the Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Old Regime and the French Revolution (Tocqueville, Alexis de) --- Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (Foucault, Michel)

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This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Reformation as it unfolded in seventeenth-century France.

Reformation --- Catholic Church --- Clergy --- Appointment, call, and election. --- France --- Church history. --- Catholicism. --- Charles Taylor. --- Christianity. --- Counter-Reformation. --- European. --- Francis de Sales. --- French. --- Ignatian. --- Ignatius Loyola. --- Jansenist. --- Old Regime. --- Reformation. --- ancien regime. --- authority. --- clergy. --- clerical. --- coercion. --- confessionalization. --- devotion. --- devout. --- discernment. --- education. --- etat de vie. --- freedom. --- grace. --- inclusive. --- laity. --- layman. --- liberty. --- marriage. --- method. --- modernity. --- monastic. --- moralism. --- pastoral. --- patriarchal. --- piety. --- priesthood. --- rationalization. --- religious. --- rigorist. --- salvation. --- state life. --- systematization. --- vows. --- youth.

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History. --- History --- Spain --- Spain. --- Arts and Humanities --- medieval history --- dissolution of the old regime --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Espanha --- Espanya --- Isupania --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Supein --- Dret --- Diplomàtica --- Associacions, institucions, etc. --- Història --- Associacions --- Associacions culturals --- Associacions voluntàries --- Entitats --- Institucions --- Organitzacions --- Associacionisme --- Grups socials --- Voluntariat --- Ciències jurídiques --- Ordenament jurídic --- Règim jurídic --- Sistema jurídic --- Jurisprudència --- Legislació --- España --- Estado Español --- Reino de España --- Espanya (Regne)

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Enlivened and enriched by Auslander's experiences as a cabinetmaker, this pathbreaking work demonstrates that in post-Revolutionary France, furniture and consumer goods became newly important means of constituting selves, social class, and, perhaps most significantly, the economy and society of the nation itself. The very style of the goods reflected these preoccupations: nineteenth-century bourgeois style was dominated by gendered versions of Old Regime-style furniture, while the working class was offered new furniture designed specifically for its needs. Tastemaking took on a sudden urgency, reflected in the creation of new schools, museums, expositions, libraries, magazines, and books designed to "improve" the taste of producers and consumers alike. As these institutions competed with furniture sellers, a fierce competition sprang up among government bureaucrats, private philanthropists, and distributors to control workers' and consumers' taste. Auslander melds the history of high politics - the formation of the state - with the history of the mundane - furniture - in order to examine how power was consolidated, reproduced, and even resisted in the small objects and gestures of everyday life in France.

Furniture --- Social change --- Politics and culture --- Wood furniture --- Wooden furniture --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- House furnishings --- Cabinetwork --- Interior decoration --- Upholstery --- Styles --- Social aspects --- France --- Civilization. --- Politics and government --- Social change. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- 19th century french culture. --- 19th century french society. --- absolutism. --- aesthetics. --- bourgeois style. --- cabinetmaker. --- consumer culture. --- consumer goods. --- european history. --- france. --- french revolution. --- french society. --- furniture sellers. --- furniture. --- gendered furniture. --- modern france. --- monarchical power. --- national economy. --- old regime style furniture. --- post revolutionary france. --- power. --- productive labor. --- representation. --- social class. --- state formation. --- studies on the history of society and culture. --- style. --- taste making.

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This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in the Cerdanya, a valley in the eastern Pyrenees divided between Spain and France in 1659. This study shuttles between two levels, between the center and the periphery. It connects the "macroscopic" political and diplomatic history of France and Spain, from the Old Regime monarchies to the national territorial states of the later nineteenth century; and the "molecular" history--the historical ethnography--of Catalan village communities, rural nobles, and peasants in the borderland. On the frontier, these two histories come together, and they can be told as one.

Self-determination, National --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- History. --- Pyrenees --- Cerdaña (Spain and France) --- Catalonia (Spain) --- Roussillon (France : Province) --- France --- Spain --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- イスパニア --- スペイン --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Rosselló (France : Province) --- Pyrénées-Orientales (France) --- Cerdagne (Spain and France) --- Cerdanya (Spain and France) --- Pireneus --- Pirineos --- Pirineus --- Pyrenaei Montes --- Pyrene --- Pyrenees (France and Spain) --- Boundaries --- Cerdaña (Spain and France) --- 17th century european history. --- 18th century european history. --- 19th century european history. --- borderland. --- boundary. --- catalan. --- cerdanya. --- counter identity. --- delimitation. --- diplomatic history. --- ethnography. --- europe. --- france. --- french history. --- french revolution. --- identity. --- monarchy. --- nation building. --- national boundary. --- old regime. --- political history. --- property. --- pyrenees. --- resistance. --- rural nobles. --- rural. --- spain. --- spanish history. --- state building. --- territory. --- treaties of bayonne.