Description:
UsedGood.
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture Paperback - 1996
by Kristin Ross
From the rear cover
'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies' examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one.
Details
- Title Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
- Author Kristin Ross
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 3rd Printing
- Pages 274
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date February 28, 1996
- ISBN 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.94 x 0.58 in (22.81 x 17.63 x 1.47 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
-
Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Dewey Decimal Code 944.083
More Copies for Sale
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Skokie, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
€3.64€3.73 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
€3.64
€3.73
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Houston, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
€5.40FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
The MIT Press, 1996-02-28. paperback. Acceptable. 8x6x0.
Item Price
€5.40
FREE shipping to USA
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€7.36FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€7.36
FREE shipping to USA
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€7.36FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
€7.36
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
€9.34€5.61 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
The MIT Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. Slightly rubbed corners, otherwise about as issued. x,261 pp. 1st ptg..
Item Price
€9.34
€5.61
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used: Good
- Edition
- CA res. please inc. 7.25% tax
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
€11.45FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
MIT Press, 1996-02-28. CA res. please inc. 7.25% tax. paperback. Used: Good.
Item Price
€11.45
FREE shipping to USA
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Dickerman, Leah
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€20.64€10.18 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Paperback. Acceptable.
Item Price
€20.64
€10.18
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization And The Reordering Of French Culture
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Vg In Wraps. A Few Turned Corners. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 261.
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Vancouver, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
€16.82€10.27 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Cambridge, MA.: Mit Press. Vg In Wraps. A Few Turned Corners. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 261.. 1996. Later Printing. Trade Paperback..
Item Price
€16.82
€10.27
shipping to USA
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Kristin Ross
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
- Item Price
-
€21.44€19.30Save €2.14!€18.64 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
A tight copy with some markings- " Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts-automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism-as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses.In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities…
Read More Item Price
€21.44€19.30
Save €2.14
!
€18.64
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (October Books)
by Ross, Kristin
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780262680912 / 0262680912
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
€40.37FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Item Price
€40.37
FREE shipping to USA