Product Description: Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acutely expressed by, the fluidity of the visual image...read more

Examines the relationship between state and region, centre and periphery, and capital and province within member states of the EC. This volume analyzes each regional identity in a historical context, and explores the dynamics of region/state and inter-regional competition and co-operation.

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Product Description: Presents a vivid picture of the various ways in which the French people experienced war: resistance and collaboration, the colonial wars, the military and the state, the military-industrial complex, war propaganda, and literary and cultural representations of war.