Rethinking France: Plans for Renewal 1940-1946

ISBN-13: 9780198275206 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 344 str.

Andrew Shennan

Opis

In the wake of the defeat of 1940, the French were compelled to come to terms with their country's national decline and to accept the need for fundamental change. The great debate over the reasons for France's defeat and the sources of its future renewal was one of the most distinctive features of these critical years. Here Shennan examines the contributions that each of the major political forces made to the debate and looks at each of its major themes. His reconstruction of the mental universe of French politicians and reformers during the 1940s casts light both on the period itself and on the roots of France's remarkable post war resurgence.

Recenzje

`From a mass of often intractable materials, he has made a significant, readable and illuminating book about a twentieth-century success, a great national debate that had, all things considered, a happy outcome'. John C. Cairns, Journal of European Economic History, Winter 1990.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: Regimes and Renewal: Vichy's National Revolution, 1940-1942; The Resistance: Liberation and renovation; Free France and the new France; De Gaulle and the Parties at Liberation; Part II: Themes of Renewal: Constitutional reform; Imperial renovation and the Union Francaise; The New Society I: Educational reform; The New Society II: Dissolving class conflict; The New Society II: Pro-Nationalism and Social Security; The New Economy I: Chronology; The New Economy II: Issues; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index