Scottish Enlightenment
Jack E. Reece. The Bretons against France: Ethnic Minority Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Brittany. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1977. xxii + 263 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-1304-4
The Breton Front
When one thinks about modern Breton culture, pictures of tall, blond, patriotic Celts in traditional dress spring to one's mind. Before the rise of nationalism in Brittany, though, the stereotypical view of the Breton couldn't be further from the modern one. For decades on end, the Bretons were mocked and exploited by their “countrymen” as they struggled to find an identity in the immense social changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Out of all this turmoil came the modern idea of a proud Breton identity and heritage. This concept of a “proud Breton” is less than a century old, and, according to Jack Reece, has in large part been shaped by Breton Nationalists. Reece's book, The Bretons......
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