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Defeated Flesh is a compelling study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris, a crucial turning point in the making of modern France. By examining the history of the body and medicine, Taithe shows how the French mobilized for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had devastating cultural and social consequences that led to the fin de siFcle spirit.

About the Author :
Bertrand Taithe is senior lecturer in Cultural History the University of Manchester.

Review :
The book succeeds admirably as a meditation on war and an analysis of war, medicine, and society. Taithe vivdly recreates the social and personal history of war as lived by civilians. Taithe provides a stimulating account that will be appreciated by historians of war, modern France, medicine, an public health. This work has an even broader significance after September 11, 2001, as we reconsider the role of war in shaping citizens, national identity, and modern society. Taithe's account is timely and reminds us how war, like desease, can redefine a nation. The book is enhances with many illustrations and tables, and a detailed bibliography is welcome addition. American Historical Review The most brilliant recent study of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune...Taithe describes medical practices and the debates over them and he gives the clearest account that anyone I know has written so far of the daily hardship and suffering in Paris. -- Robert L. Herbert The New York Review Of Books Taithe masterfully plumbs an enormous variety of primary sources-especially medical and public health records-and contemporary analyses to explore the forming of this historical memory. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE Defeated Flesh is a well-researched and original account of the French defeat of 1870. It draws upon a wide range of Parisian archives and published sources, many of which have seldom been used as historical documents. Its originality lies in the fact that it is the first book to deal exclusively with representations of the war, rather than providing an interpretation of what actually happened. War in History Taithe provides a stimulating account that will be appreciated by historians of war, modern France, medicine, and public health. American Historical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742500488
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Medicine, Society, and the Birth of Modern France
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0742500489
  • Publisher Date: 29 Dec 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr


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