Papers by Herman Lebovics
Journal of Modern History, 2009
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Social Conservatism and the Middle Class in Germany, 1914-1933, 1969
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 1989
Books & ideas, Oct 8, 2015
About: Veronique Dimier, The Invention of European Development Aid Bureaucracy: Recycling Empire,... more About: Veronique Dimier, The Invention of European Development Aid Bureaucracy: Recycling Empire, Palgrave.
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1970
Duke University Press eBooks, 2004
French Cultural Studies, Oct 26, 2011
When he ran for president in 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy promised to build a museum of French history. H... more When he ran for president in 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy promised to build a museum of French history. He declared that he was troubled by the lack of a coherent account of the nation's great moments and great heroes. On being elected, he started the planning process, finally settling on the Hôtel de Soubise, part of the Archives nationales, as the site of the future Maison de l'histoire de France. Although his project was supported by a certain number of intellectuals, many university scholars, especially the historians, raised strong objections to a concept that returned to the old Third Republic civic history in the style of Ernest Lavisse. The future museum was to offer visitors old-fashioned narrative history of male achievements, with no account taken of new insights that women's, gender, social, cultural, colonial and immigration history have added to any discussion of what France is or might be. It rejects the idea that there have been, and can be, many ways of being French. The critics of the museum project deplored the instrumentalisation of the nation's past-one of several such presidential ventures-for short-term political gain. The strike of archive employees, which lasted for several months, scuttled that site as the future home of the history museum. The story is not finished. The discussion of the presidential museum initiative is placed in a larger context in which increased economic neo-liberalism, greater state interventions at home and overseas, and the propagation of a nostalgic-conservative vision of the nation's past reinforce each other, even as they coexist in uneasy union.
Mouvement Social, Oct 1, 2002
Cornell University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2011
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Contemporary French civilization, Jul 1, 2018
This study begins by evoking Akira Kurosawa’s meditation in Rashomon (1951) on the disparities of... more This study begins by evoking Akira Kurosawa’s meditation in Rashomon (1951) on the disparities of the stories told by self-interested participants in a highly-charged emotional incident. The article looks at similar contradictions, evasions, ambiguities, and even intersections of several narratives of how France’s cultural and political relationship to other nearby lands, especially those around the Mediterranean, propose what each speaker would have understood as the “true” story of the nation’s identity both in its colonial past and for the future. A cultural anthropologist wishes to see a museum built at the entrance of the Old Port of Marseilles dedicated to telling of the insufficiently honored vernacular cultures of France, Europe, and the lands around the Mediterranean. But pieds-noirs organizations would rather have what they value as their role of building the influence of “la civilisation francaise” overseas celebrated in a grand monument in the same city. And newly elected President of the Repu...
In opposition to the efforts of Emile Durkheim and his circle from the 1890s onwards to create a ... more In opposition to the efforts of Emile Durkheim and his circle from the 1890s onwards to create a new sociology supportive of a re-established Republic there flourished in France sciences humaines dedicated to studying ways of maintaining a conservative social order. We know a great deal about the successes both in the faculties and in public life of the Durkheimian School and of its efforts, in the words of Anthony Giddens, to combat the "strongly entrenched forces on the Right," and to study ways of transcending "the traditional forms of society which the conservatives defended." However, we know very little about these right sciences humaines or the reasons for their ultimate eclipse and disappearance from the intellectual scene.1
Duke University Press eBooks, 2006
New York Review of Books, 2005
Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme eBooks, Feb 23, 2018
Pendant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres, le musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro (MET) possédait ... more Pendant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres, le musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro (MET) possédait l’une des plus importantes collections d’objets en provenance de sociétés non urbaines. Une de ses salles d’exposition était spécialement dédiée à la culture matérielle des provinces françaises. En 1937, ces objets français furent séparés du reste des collections pour se voir offrir leur propre musée, le musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP). Cette division entre l’étude ethnogr..
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