TY - BOOK ID - 5296224 TI - France/USA : the cultural wars PY - 2001 VL - 100 SN - 0300090749 9780300090741 PB - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Culture conflict KW - Conflit culturel KW - France KW - United States KW - Etats-Unis KW - Relations KW - Civilization KW - Civilisation KW - Culture KW - Culture - France. KW - Culture - United States. KW - Culture conflict - France. KW - France - Relations - United States. KW - United States - Relations - France. KW - Civilization. KW - Cultural policy. KW - Culture conflict. KW - International relations. KW - Popular culture KW - Popular culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5296224 AB - A selection of a half-dozen of articles compares the current intellectual climates of the United States and France regarding contemporary dissonances, lamenting with piqued compunction their "strange impermeability" (13). These two pioneering democracies, founded two hundred years ago, are hurling at each other the language of their creation, the Americans immensely proud of a dozen years seniority and the French ... of their Frenchness. Or at least, that is what the arti-cles claim. Close reading of the most significant pieces may make the disaccord more substantive ... -- From JSTOR (Dec. 12, 2011) ER -