Colette's Republic

Colette's RepublicIn Frances Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these

Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts

but not without a satirical element as a communal group attempts to establish an elusive identity

political leaders

With some 45 contributors

is giving way to a political-economic formation that has multiple state-like effects and is able to act in ways systemic with deterritorializing global processes

During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s

it may now be more relevant as concerns grow about the increasing influence of the wealthy on civil institutions

Examines the production

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This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal

and behavioral health and health disparities in the United States

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