Author: Margaret Cook AndersenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031260244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire
Author: Margaret Cook AndersenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031260244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Making Space
Author: Melissa K. ByrnesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080329073X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.
Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Shalon ParkerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611496713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book examines the sub-genre of prehistoric-themed paintings and how it captured the imagination of French academic painters from the 1880s to early 1900s. Its primary focus is the oeuvre of Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), one of the foremost history painters during the final quarter of the nineteenth century.
Family Questions
Author: Allan CarlsonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412823425
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Drawing upon evidence from different fields, Carlson offers a number of provocative explanations to the American crisis in the family. In his search for a solution he borrows from a number of traditions---conservatism, feminism, socialism, and Marxism.
Origins of the French Welfare State
Author: Paul V. DuttonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139432966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.
European Demography and Economic Growth
Author: W. R. LeePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000385450
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
First published in 1979, European Demography and Economic Growth presents a collection of essays on the demographic development of individual European economies like Austria, Hungary, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal etc. It provides a comparative analysis to clarify many crucial issues connected with the growth in European population from mid-eighteenth century. It looks at the suitable criteria for assessing the applicability of general theory to the experience of individual nations. It showcases the over-riding contrast between substantial economic variations on a national and regional level and the existence of common underlying demographic trends. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of economic history, political economy, European history, population geography and economics in general.
Maternalism Reconsidered
Author: Marian van der KleinPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed 'maternalism'. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.
The Demographics of Empire
Author: Karl IttmannPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa’s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.
France
Author: Britannica Educational PublishingPublisher: Britanncia Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615309810
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Frances cultural and historical legacies are numerous and diverse. It has long played a dominant role on the world stage, and as one of the largest countries of the European Union, its global influence shows no signs of dying down. But despite its cultural, economic, governmental, and historical achievements, France has experienced trials and tribulations, perhaps most memorably during the French Revolution, but throughout history as well. This comprehensive volume surveys Frances assorted regions, its renowned traditions, the individuals and peoples that have led it to greatness, and the struggles and successes of its past and present.
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