France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society
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ISBN: 0140259228 / Publisher: Penguin Books, January 2001
Profiles French society since 1945 as one struggling to preserve its cultural heritage while moving into a new century, covering its cities and provinces as well as such topics as politics, race relations, the euro, Euro Disney, and the Eurotunnel. Original.
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Authoritative, thorough and informative, France in the New Century is an intelligent account of the life of an influential and stimulating (if sometimes exasperating) nation. In examining the entire country, from cultured and stressful Paris through to the turbulent high-rise suburbs and the increasingly independent provinces, John Ardagh has, with the benefit of in-depth fieldwork and decades of familiarity with French life, produced a balanced and vivid account of the political, economic and cultural state of the nation, and what its future may bring.Dealing with topics as diverse as the policies of Prime Ministers Juppe and Jospin, the rise and present crisis of Le Pen's Front National, the triumph of the multiracial French World Cup football team, the euro, Euro Disney and Eurotunnel, and the changes afoot at Club Med (and much more besides), this book, which draws on material from John Ardagh's best-selling France Today, is an indispensable guide to a complicated country.
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