《The Cult of the Nation in France》是2003年Harvard University Press出版的圖書，作者是David A. Bell。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Cult of the Nation in France
- 作者：David A. Bell
- 出版社：Harvard University Press
- ISBN：9780674012370
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Using 18th-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an alternative argument about the origins of nationalism. Before the 18th century, the very idea of nation building - a central component of nationalism - did not exist. During this period, leading French intellectual and political figures came to see perfect national unity as a critical priority, and so sought ways to endow all French people with the same language, laws, customs and values. The period thus gave rise to the first large-scale nationalist programme in history. The revolutionaries hoped that patriotism and national sentiment would replace religion as the new binding force in public life. Yet paradoxically, the example of cultural remodelling they followed in their nation-building quest was that of the Catholic Church, in its ambitious Counter-Reformation efforts to evangelize the French peasantry. In the new era, the population would be bound together not in a single Church, but in a single French nation. In this work, Bell offers a comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.
圖書目錄
Preface
Introduction: Constructing the Nation
1. The National and the Sacred
2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment
3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs
4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen
5. National Character and the Republican Imagination
6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible
Conclusion: Toward the Present Day and the End of Nationalism
Notes
Note on Internet Appendices and Bibliography
Index
作者簡介
大衛·A. 貝爾，美國約翰·霍普金斯大學歷史學教授，著名法國史專家，著有《法國舊制度政治精英的誕生》《拿破崙簡史》《第一場總體戰：拿破崙戰爭》等重要作品，在歐美學界與社會有著較高的聲譽。
