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Newly available in paperback, Redefining the French Republic is an
innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach,
the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French
politics, society and culture. The chapters go beyond the familiar
question of whether the Republic is acting in accordance with its
vocation, to address the issue of whether that vocation is still
viable. Drawing on contributions that reflect a variety of
methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations
and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data, this study
examines the dynamics of the relationship between the Republic and
its constituencies, in the fields of political relations,
territorial identities, social movements, public policy and foreign
policy, and in each context juxtaposing what is perceived as the
model for that relationship with the current reality. France in the
twenty-first century is facing challenges that could not have been
imagined a generation ago. The test for the Republic is whether it
will resist the ongoing pressures for redefinition imposed by
internal contestation and the emergence of powerful supranational
and global forces, or whether it will find a way of adapting to
these pressures while preserving a part of the vocation and
ambition that make it characteristically French. The book concludes
that, though the French polity remains characteristically different
from other models of modern liberal democracy, internal and
external pressures have challenged the republican model to the
core. -- .
From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the
Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen to Napol on Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert
Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre,
France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable
events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of
these events in the second edition of The A to Z of France. Through
a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds
of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians,
authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a
thorough history of France is presented.
When Gino Mastrianno took the job as a manager of a set of office
buildings in a downtown complex he didn't know he would have to
fight with something that couldn't possibly exist. People were
missing and the company was covering it up. When he took notice and
wanted to find out the truth things turned into a struggle of life
and death. The truth turned into a creature hundreds of year's old
kept secret from the outside world living amongst us in a busy
metropolitan area. In a race against time they must find a way to
defeat it before it hunts them down. Everything is against them,
the building, the people and the ageless thing in the tower.
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