France and Fascism

France and Fascism
Author: Brian Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317507258

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This ‘French civil war’, the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would come to an end only at the Liberation of France ten years later. The book challenges the assumption that the riots did not pose a serious threat to French democracy by providing a more balanced historical contextualisation of the events. Each chapter follows a distinctive analytical framework, incorporating the latest research in the field on French interwar politics as well as important new investigations into political violence and the dynamics of political crisis. With a direct focus on the actual processes of the unfolding political crisis and the dynamics of the riots themselves, France and Fascism offers a comprehensive analysis which will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, in the areas of French history and politics, and fascism and the far right.

Reprisal

Reprisal
Author: Ethel Vance
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1839742666

Reprisal, first published in 1942, is a novel centered on six people, mostly in the Brittany region of France during the early days of World War II. A German officer is found murdered, and the Germans promise that 20 villagers will be shot if the killer is not found within three days. While not filled with action, the book is an emotional ‘psychological thriller,’ as well as a romance, as tensions mount and each character’s true nature become apparent, all within the larger context of the German occupation, divided loyalties, and the future of France. Ethel Vance is a pseudonym for Grace Zaring Stone (1891-1991), who authored 11 books, three of which were made into movies.

Paris

Paris
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1513294512

Paris (1898) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Paris is the final installment in Zola’s celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola’s career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man’s struggle with faith in political, religious, and social life. Following his protagonist Abbé Pierre Froment, Zola provides a striking portrait of the soul of modern man in crisis with itself and with an ever-changing world. Paris finds Abbé Froment back in his home city, disheartened in his life and in his faith. Having failed in his quest to reform the Church, he turns his attention from institutional change to helping the poor and sick. As his reputation as an almsgiver grows, he draws the ire of his Church superiors, who are wary of his socialistic ideals. Regardless, Pierre dedicates himself to his subjects, taking in the poverty and destitution of a great city’s slums and forgetting his former ambitions. When a near-death experience involving an anarchist bombing brings him back in touch with his estranged brother Guillaume, Froment begins to wonder whether his fate must rely on an institution unwilling, and perhaps unable, to change. In the thrilling conclusion to his Three Cities Trilogy, Zola explores the meaning of faith in a faithless world through the eyes of one good man. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Émile Zola’s Paris is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

A Guide to Diplomatic Practice

A Guide to Diplomatic Practice
Author: Ernest Satow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108028853

Never out of print, the standard work on the history and practice of international diplomacy since its publication in 1917.

The Invisible Code

The Invisible Code
Author: William M. Reddy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520324498

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.