The British In Rural France
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Author | : Michaela Benson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1847797741 |
The British in rural France, available at last in paperback, is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates culturally-specific imaginings, lived experiences, individual life histories and personal circumstances. Through an ethnographic lens incorporating in-depth interviews, participant observation, life and migration histories, this monograph reveals the complex process by which migrants negotiate and make meaningful their lives following migration. By promoting their own ideologies and lifestyle choices relative to those of others, British migrants in rural France reinforce their position as members of the British middle-class, but also take authorship of their lives in a way not possible before migration. This is evident in the pursuit of a better way of life that initially motivated migration and continues to characterise post-migration lives. As the book argues, this ongoing quest is both reflective of wider ideologies about living, particularly the desire for authentic living, and subtle processes of social distinction. In these respects The British in rural France provides a unique empirical example of the relationship between the pursuit of authenticity and middle-class identification practices. The book will be of interest to lifestyle migration and migration specialists, sociologists, social anthropologists, human geographers, scholars of tourism, as well as being accessible to individuals with a broader interest in this social phenomenon.
Author | : Janine Marsh |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1782437339 |
Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride.
Author | : Janine Marsh |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2022-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789293855 |
The latest dispatch from ex-pat Janine Marsh introduces readers to some new faces and funny stories, as she continues her life in this special part of northern France.
Author | : Eugen Weber |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804710139 |
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.
Author | : Marc Bloch |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520016606 |
From the Preface by Lucien Febvre: MARC BLOCH'S Caracteres originaux de l'histoire ruralefranfaise, which was originally published at Oslo in 1931 and appeared simultaneously at Paris under the imprint Belles Lettres, has long been out of print. As he told me on more than one occasion, he had every intention of bringing out another edition. In Marc Bloch's own mind this was not simply a matter of reissuing the original text. He knew, none better, that time stops for no historian, that every good piece of historical writing needs to be rewritten after twenty years: otherwise the writer has failed in his objective, failed to goad others into testing his foundations and improving on his rasher hypotheses by subjecting them to greater precision. Marc Bloch was not given time to refashion his great book as he would have wished. One wonders whether he would in fact ever have brought himself to do it. I have the impression that the prospect of this somewhat dreary and certainly difficult task (however one may try to avoid it, revision of an earlier work is always hampered by the original design, which offers few easy loopholes for escape) held less appeal than the excitement of conceiving and executing an entirely new book. However this may be, our friend has carried this secret, with so many others, to his grave. The fact remains that one of our historical classics, now more than twenty years old, is due for republication and is here presented to the reader.
Author | : Samuel Chamberlain |
Publisher | : Architectural Book Publ (Gtt) |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Originally published in 1928, this long out-of-print collector's item is a superb series of sketches of small chateaux, farms, town houses, cottages, manors and gates. An inspiration to architects and artists who want to try their hand at sketching in the style of Samuel Chamberlain.
Author | : Rick Stein |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1473531713 |
Real French home cooking with all the recipes from Rick's new BBC Two series. Over fifty years ago Rick Stein first set foot in France. Now, he returns to the food and cooking he loves the most ... and makes us fall in love with French food all over again. Rick’s meandering quest through the byways and back roads of rural France sees him pick up inspiration from Normandy to Provence. With characteristic passion and joie de vivre, Rick serves up incredible recipes: chicken stuffed with mushrooms and Comté, grilled bream with aioli from the Languedoc coast, a duck liver parfait bursting with flavour, and a recipe for the most perfect raspberry tart plus much, much more. Simple fare, wonderful ingredients, all perfectly assembled; Rick finds the true essence of a food so universally loved, and far easier to recreate than you think.
Author | : Madhu Satsangi |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1847423841 |
For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructured countryside. This book provides an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales, and Scotland. It looks at a range of topics related to community and planning issues, including attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning, and counter-urbanization. The Rural Housing Question emphasizes the need for serious debate on government's rural housing policies and on the broad approach to development and communities in the countryside.
Author | : Peter Mayle |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-05-19 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0307755495 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
Author | : Karen Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-03-21 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : 9781552789353 |
After quitting her fast-paced life as asuccessful fashion editor in London, Karen is happily installed in her prettyvillage house in France. Her idyll is almost complete — until a gang of machoPortuguese builders, a procession of badly behaving Brits and an ex-boyfriendbegin to arrive on her doorstop. But Karen soon finds her (dancing) feet in thesmall rural community when she discovers the key to acceptance is le dansecountry. And after a few shuffles and twirls shemeets the love of her life — he has dark, shaggy hair, four paws and a wet nose. . .