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Portions of this book originally appeared as “Neither Reformers Nor Réformés: The Construction of French Modernity in the Nineteenth Century,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 40, no. 3 (Fall 2014), published by Berghahn Press, and “Imagining the Trans-Mediterranean Republic: Algeria, Republicanism, and the Ideological Origins of the French Imperial Nation-State, 1848–1870,” French Historical Studies 37 (Spring 2014), published by Duke University Press.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Murray-Miller, Gavin, author.

Title: The cult of the modern: trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity / Gavin Murray-Miller.

Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. | Series: France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016029053

ISBN 9780803290648 (cloth: alkaline paper)

ISBN 9781496200297 (epub)

ISBN 9781496200303 (mobi)

ISBN 9781496200310 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: France—Relations—Algeria. | Algeria—Relations—France. | Algeria—Colonization—History—19th century. | France—Colonies—Administration—History—19th century. | Social change—France—History—19th century. | Nationalism—France—History—19th century. | Politics and culture—France—History—19th century. | France—Politics and government—19th century. | France—Intellectual life—19th century. | BISAC: HISTORY / Europe / France. | HISTORY / Africa / North. | HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.

Classification: LCC DC59.8.A4 M87 2017 | DDC 303.48/24406509034—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029053

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