The uncertain foundation : France at the Liberation, 1944-47 / edited by Andrew Knapp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knapp, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

History.

France--Politics and government--1945-1958.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

France's new rulers at the Liberation promised a decisive break with both the wartime Vichy regime and the pre-war Third Republic. There were indeed fresh departures - but alongside messy, unplanned continuities and false starts. The 'new' Fourth Republic resembled the Third (but contained some seeds of the Fifth). Elites were purged, yet politicians from the Resistance were still held back by established party figures. Catholics embraced the ideals of the Republic and Resistance, until called to order by the Church hierarchy. Women won the vote, but still lacked full civil rights. France's empire, promised a new deal, was subjected to repression. Radical economic reforms were accommodated within a neo-capitalist framework. Reluctantly aligned with the West, France maintained uneasy relations with her 'Anglo-Saxon' allies. Prepared by an international team of specialists. The Uncertain Foundation analyses a complex and defining period of regime change, economic renewal, social transformation, and adjustment to a fast-evolving world.

Contents:

Introduction : France's "long" liberation, 1944-47 / Andrew Knapp

The liberation and the institutional question in France / Emmanuel Cartier

Sénat ou pas Sénat? : the "first" Council of the Republic / Paul Smith

De Gaulle and the paradox of post-war French politics / David Goldey

Replacement or renewal? : the French political élite at the liberation / Olivier Wieviorka

"The politics of political women" : reassessing the first députées / Hilary Footitt

France's liberation era, 1944-47 : a social and economic settlement? / Herrick Chapman

Catholics and the long liberation : the progressive moment / Nicholas Atkin

Whose liberation? : confronting the problem of the French empire, 1944-47 / Martin Shipway

Moscow, the Parti communiste franc̦ais, and France's political recovery / Natalia Naoumova

Washington at the liberation, 1944-47 / Charles Cogan and Andrew Knapp

The half-open window : France and Britain, 1944-47 / Andrew Knapp

Occupation, liberation, purges : the changing landscape of French memory / Philippe Buton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230521216

0230521215

OCLC:

77831134

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