The French Right Between the Wars

The French Right Between the Wars
Author: Samuel Kalman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782382410

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right had embraced fascism, generating a fierce debate that has engaged scholars for decades, but has also obscured critical changes in French society and culture during the 1920s and 1930s. This collection of essays shifts the focus away from long-standing controversies in order to examine various elements of the French right, from writers to politicians, social workers to street fighters, in their broader social, cultural, and political contexts. It offers a wide-ranging reassessment of the structures, mentalities, and significance of various conservative and extremist organizations, deepening our understanding of French and European history in a troubled yet fascinating era.

France Between the Wars

France Between the Wars
Author: Sian Reynolds
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2002-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134798326

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802

The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802
Author: T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1996
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780340569115

"The military and political progress of the [French] revolutionary armies is narrated and analysed in this ... study, with special attention paid to the legacy of the old regime, the remarkable resilience displayed by the old regime powers, the reasons for the revolutionaries' success on land -- and the reasons for their failure at sea. The revolutionary wars brought France hegemony in Europe but at a terrible cost. Inside the country, the war brought the end of pluralism, the destruction of the monarchy, civil war and the terror, paving the way for military dictatorship and burdening the country with an enduring legacy of political instability. This interaction between events at the front and at home is discussed in full. Special attention is also paid to the devastation inflicted by the revolutionary armies as they rampaged across the continent, together with the nationalist resistance movements they provoked"--Page 4 of cover.

Modern Warfare

Modern Warfare
Author: Roger Trinquier
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 1964
Genre: France
ISBN: 142891689X

Policing Paris

Policing Paris
Author: Clifford D. Rosenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801444272

The surveillance of immigrants and potential terrorists preoccupies leaders throughout the industrialised world. Yet these concerns are hardly new. This text examines a critical movement in the history of immigration control and political surveillance.

France’s Purveyors of Hatred

France’s Purveyors of Hatred
Author: Richard Griffiths
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000317617

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française and the militant ligues are examined as well as prominent extreme-right intellectuals such as Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The various forms of French anti-Semitism are assessed, and the book also situates the French extreme right within a broader context by assessing its impact on other European countries, including the UK. It concludes by exploring the complicated politics of wartime France where some extreme-right activists collaborated with the Nazis while others opposed them, and where few generalisations prove possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of French history, the extreme right and interwar politics.

Wine and War

Wine and War
Author: Donald Kladstrup
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0767913256

The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.

Neither Right Nor Left

Neither Right Nor Left
Author: Zeev Sternhell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691006291

"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the forty most important books published in France during the 1980s, this explosive work asserts that fascism was an important part of the mainstream of European history, not just a temporary development in Germany and Italy but a significant aspect of French culture as well. Neither right nor left, fascism united antibourgeois, antiliberal nationalism, and revolutionary syndicalist thought, each of which joined in reflecting the political culture inherited from eighteenth-century France. From the first, Sternhell's argument generated strong feelings among people who wished to forget the Vichy years, and his themes drew enormous public attention in 1994, as Paul Touvier was condemned for crimes against humanity and a new biography probed President Mitterand's Vichy connections. The author's new preface speaks to the debates of 1994 and reinforces the necessity of acknowledging the past, as President Chirac has recently done on France's behalf.

The Right Wing in France

The Right Wing in France
Author: René Rémond
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512806072

The Gaullist regime in France has aroused much interest in the nature of French politics. This stimulating analysis of the conservative faction in France, revised by the author to include the government of General de Gaulle, should be of interest not only to students of that country's history and politics but also to general readers who would understand France's political tradition and where de Gaulle fits into it. This work is translated from the second and revised edition of La Droite en France: de le Première Restauration á la Ve République, published in Paris in 1963.

The French empire between the wars

The French empire between the wars
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526118696

By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Africa, Syria and Indochina. The book also connects French theories of colonial governance to the lived experience of colonial rule in a period scarred by war and economic dislocation.