Rural inventions : the French countryside after 1945 / Sarah Farmer.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190079109Subject(s): Rural renewal -- France | France -- Rural conditions -- History | France -- History -- 1945-
| Sociology, Rural -- France -- History | Farming and Country Life | Society & culture: generalAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190079079DDC classification: 307.72094409045 LOC classification: HT443.F7Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Rural Inventions' looks at the transformation of rural France in the 1950s and 1960s when rapid modernization and explosive economic growth drove peasants from the countryside and eroded village traditions. It shows that the French responded not only with nostalgia but also by inhabiting the countryside in new ways. This text explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in 'going back to the land'; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. This work presents postwar rural France as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Rural Inventions' looks at the transformation of rural France in the 1950s and 1960s when rapid modernization and explosive economic growth drove peasants from the countryside and eroded village traditions. It shows that the French responded not only with nostalgia but also by inhabiting the countryside in new ways. This text explores the rise of restored peasant houses as second residences; utopian experiments in rural communes and in 'going back to the land'; environmentalism; the literary success of peasant autobiographies; photography; and other representations through which the French revalorized rural life and landscapes. This work presents postwar rural France as a site not just of decline and loss but also of change and adaptation.
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