In interwar France, there was a growing sense that 'organization' was the solution to the nation's perceived social, economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization and economic planning. In doing so, it shows how experts in fields ranging from engineering to the biological sciences shaped visions of a rational socio-economic order from the 1920s to Vichy and beyond.
In interwar France, there was a growing sense that 'organization' was the solution to the nation's perceived social, economic and political ills. ...
Aurelie Gfeller's text makes an original contribution to the analysis of French foreign policy making. A combination of archival research and clear prose sheds new light on the roots of nascent European political cooperation in the 1970s... She argues convincingly that, notwithstanding the short-lived nature of the Euro-Arab dialogue itself, this early chapter of European foreign policy cooperation bequeathed significant longer-term legacies for European policy coordination. - David Styan, Birkbeck College
... a good piece of work. The author adds important new insights into a...
Aurelie Gfeller's text makes an original contribution to the analysis of French foreign policy making. A combination of archival research and clear...
..". a well-written monograph that nicely reveals the dilemmas of community-making in situations where all residents are newcomers, but not all newcomers are equal ... There is much to admire and learn from this lucid study, both about the villes nouvelles as particular socio-spatial environments, and about the heavily politicized field of culture talk in France." -French Politics, Culture, and Society
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots...
..". a well-written monograph that nicely reveals the dilemmas of community-making in situations where all residents are newcomers, but not all ...
" . . . an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations." - New Left Review "This book is clearly an indispensable resource for historians of twentieth-century France and French intellectual life, and a fine resource for anyone interested in a political sociology of the intellectual. Its fundamental thesis concerning the political sources of the antitotalitarian moment in the discourse of direct democracy and the electoral opposition to the PCF...
" . . . an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philia...
..".this is a valuable addition to the existing literature on the impact of the October 1973 energy crisis on French national policy, the evolution of the European Community, and the nature of the transatlantic relationship." - American Historical Review
"In contrast to most recent studies on the "Year of Europe," Aurelie Gfeller has meticulously mapped the discussions at the Quai d'Orsay and used a variety of other French document collections as well as French newspapers." - Diplomacy & Statecraft
"The author offers much new information...She deepens substantially our understanding...
..".this is a valuable addition to the existing literature on the impact of the October 1973 energy crisis on French national policy, the evolution...
