Product Description: A fascinating and comprehensive exploration of France Perfect for everyone from general readers to students to recreational or business travelers, the Teach Yourself World Cultures series explores language, history, art, politics, economics, cuisine, and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Threatened from above by economic globalization and European integration, and from below by the rise of identity politics, the French state has attempted to redefine its relationship to its citizens. Reinventing France examines the ways in which state action has endeavored to promote social integration in an increasingly fragmented nation and has challenged traditional concepts of an indivisible Republic and universal citizenship rights in order to achieve the core republican ideals of freedom, equality and solidarity...read more

Product Description: This new edition of our successful textbook provides a thorough examination of French politics at the turn of the century. It explains and sets in context all aspects of French politics, taking into account recent developments as well as the background and structure of the French political system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The U.S.-French relationship is unique in mixing elements of rivalry and cooperation. Historical allies and comrades in arms, the United States and France are often fractious and quarrelsome. Their promotion of competing visions for a post-Cold War Europe gives a sharp edge to disputes over security and trade issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Traveling on the luxury liner France early in 1963, the Western world's most famous painting sailed across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to the United States. President John F. Kennedy officially welcomed the Mona Lisa for her stay in the capital and New York...read more

Product Description: This text is an attempt to analyze the underlying message of the Eurosceptic discourse in France, by focusing more on the convergence between the actors and their message than on their disagreements. Part one is a description of the movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Political Culture in France and West Germany" assesses the extent to which attitudes, political orientations and social values have changed during five decades of post-war development and to what extent the unspoken assumptions which shape people's views and actions have retained a country-specific flavour...read more