Posts Tagged ‘ Civilization ’

Tracing French ideas of nationhood: Ernest Renan

February 1, 2011
By Rachel
RenanNation

Patrick Weil, a research fellow at the CNRS and also a former professor of mine, has just published an essay entitled Etre français, les quatre piliers de la nationalité (Editions de l’Aube, January 2011). Although I haven’t yet had the chance to read it, an abstract describes his conjecture that French nationality is based...Read more »

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Teaching Civilization Through Old French School Manuals

January 25, 2011
By Rachel
Lecons de Morale 1904

Welcome to a new semester! I’m teaching a civilization class this spring and thought I’d share some of the ideas I’m using for course material. In this post I talked about using Gallica to find primary sources, and used the example of a geography text book to demonstrate the process. As an introduction to...Read more »

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