France Since the Liberation

ISBN-13: 9781032637433 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str.

United Kingdom) Raymond Gino (University of Bristol

Opis

This book focuses on the tension between the modernising thrust that places France on a trajectory of convergence with comparable liberal democracies and the defence of a national specificity that can act as a brake, complicating France’s relationship with its neighbours, its present and past.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Republic That Never Died  2. Tidying up History  3. End of Empire and the Pursuit of a Modern France  4. The European Horizon: Championing the Nation and National Champions  5. The Enduring Extra-Territoriality of Nationhood  6. Squaring the Circle: French Exceptionalism in a Converging Europe  7. The Republic ‘One and Indivisible’: A Unique Consensus?  8. The Decline of an Exceptional Model of Leadership.  Conclusion

O autorze

Gino Raymond is Emeritus Professor of French at Bristol University. His research interests range widely across French literature, politics, and society.