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100 1 $aFox, Renée C.$q(Renée Claire),$d1928-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80026716
245 10 $aIn the Belgian château :$bthe spirit and culture of a European society in an age of change /$cRenée C. Fox.
260 $aChicago :$bI.R. Dee,$c1994.
300 $axii, 339 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aWhen Renee Fox first traveled to Brussels in 1959 to study the Belgian institutions of medical research, she scarcely realized how strongly Belgium's way of life would take hold of her. Fascinated by the culture and its people, she began thirty-five years of investigation of that small European country.
520 8 $aMoving across Belgium's geography and society, Ms. Fox uses her autobiography as a wedge to explore the ways of life of the chateaux and their inhabitants. Blending social and cultural analysis with ethnography, contemporary history, interviews, and her personal reflections, she succeeds in conveying the values, images, atmosphere, and world-view of a whole European society since World War II.
520 8 $aHer encounters are with important powers in government and science, with great playwrights, with families of the middle class as well as those of wealth and stature, and with the routinized but socially revealing banks, railroads, and postal systems of Belgium. Her experiences in the African country of Zaire (formerly the Congo), at a time when it was pulling away from its status as a Belgian colony, make an insightful report on this moment of change.
651 0 $aBelgium$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114397
651 0 $aBelgium$xPolitics and government$y1951-1993.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012998
651 0 $aBelgium$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012961
852 00 $boff,glx$hHN503.5$i.F69 1994