Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962 / / ed. by Kenneth Mouré, Martin S. Alexander.

• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Martin S.,; Bell, P. M. H.,; Blatt, Joel,; Chapman, Herrick,; Fishman, Sarah,; Hitchcock, William I.,; House, Jim,; Imlay, Talbot,; Ingram, Norman,; Irvine, William D.,; MacMaster, Neil,; Marks, Sally,; Mouré, Kenneth,; Prestwich, Patricia E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexander, Martin S.,; Mouré, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep di...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• Introduction: CRISIS AND RENEWAL IN FRANCE SINCE THE FIRSTWORLDWAR
• Chapter 1. JOHN CAIRNS AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE FALL OF FRANCE
• Chapter 2. POINCARE-LA-PEUR
• Chapter 3. WOMEN’S RIGHT AND THE ‘RIGHTS OF MAN’
• Chapter 4. THE GOLD STANDARD ILLUSION
• Chapter 5. THE CAGOULE PLOT, 1936-1937
• Chapter 6. RETREAT OR RESISTANCE
• Chapter 7. “NOUS ALLONS VERS LES MONASTÈRES”
• Chapter 8. CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, 1934-1945
• Chapter 9. THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE AS A MOMENT IN STATE-MAKING
• Chapter 10. MODERNIZING POLITICS IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC
• Chapter 11. CRISIS AND MODERNIZATION IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC
• Chapter 12. SEEKING FRANCE’S ‘LOST SOLDIERS’
• Chapter 13. ‘UNE JOURNÉE PORTÉE DISPARUE’
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX