{"product_id":"france-in-the-world","title":"France in the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndré Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades. A world traveller who trained as a geographer, Siegfried became a leading political scientist and prominent newspaper columnist. As a long-time professor at Sciences Po, he shaped generations of his country’s elite. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrance in the World\u003c\/i\u003e explores the life and career of André Siegfried. An innovator in the field of political science, he established himself as France’s leading interpreter of the English-speaking world. Often likened to Alexis de Tocqueville, Siegfried published influential studies of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand, striving to understand France’s place in a changing global context. Siegfried was a cosmopolitan promoter of liberalism and individual freedom. But at the same time he perceived France to be the core of a Western civilization whose leadership and values were threatened by Americanization, anti-imperial nationalism, and non-white immigration. By following Siegfried’s long career and examining the breadth of his writings, Sean Kennedy shows how his racial and ethnic essentialism was a unifying aspect of his life’s work. That these ideas were considered unremarkable for most of his lifetime offers a powerful illustration of how racist thinking permeated mainstream French republicanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the many facets of Siegfried’s career, \u003ci\u003eFrance in the World\u003c\/i\u003e examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during an era that witnessed political extremism and a rapidly changing international order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56591942123864,"sku":"9780228014317","price":88.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228014317_55d37765-6dd5-4ceb-8714-79acc198d446.jpg?v=1778769020","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/france-in-the-world","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}