TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farmer,Sarah Bennett
TI  - Rural inventions: the French countryside after 1945 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190079109
AV  - HT443.F7 
U1  - 307.72094409045 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rural renewal
KW  - France
KW  - Sociology, Rural
KW  - History
KW  - Farming and Country Life
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Society & culture: general
KW  - thema
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - 1945-
N1  - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - '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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190079079.001.0001
ER  -