Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France by Bertrand Taithe

by Bertrand Taithe

Defeated Flesh is a study of the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. Taithe considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had social and cultural consequences. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it aims to revise the current debates on citizenship, centralization and modern warfare. The range of material and the author's mainly original approach will cast fresh light on the social aspirations behind the first socialist uprising in the world and on the fears of national decline so common in Western Europe before 1914.

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First published December 29, 1999

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[edward clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

oddly poetic with a focus on medicine which i was sort of into ngl - i did skim some parts because this was for uni but don't judge me