Republican identities in war and peace : representations of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Antoine Prost ; translated by Jay Winter with Helen McPhail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prost, Antoine, 1933-

Contributor:

Winter, J. M.

McPhail, Helen.

Series:

Legacy of the Great War.

Legacy of the Great War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--1914-1940.

France.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berg, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents a collection of articles by Antoine Prost. This book covers: an account of war memorials; the troubled history of commemorating the Algerian war; republican representations of war and peace; and, discourse and social conflict in republican France. It offers an understanding of the history of nineteenth and twentieth century France. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Introduction; I. National Identity; 1 War Memorials of the Great War; 2 Verdun; 3 The Contribution of the Republican Primary School to French National Identity; 4 Representations of War in the Cultural History of France, 1914-1939; 5 The Algerian War in French Collective Memory; II. Identities and Civil Society; 6 The People of Paris; 7 Celebrating Joan; 8 Marriage, Youth and Society in Orleans in 1911; 9 Youth in France Between the Wars; III. Identities and the Discourse of Political Conflict; 10 Votes and Words; 11 Workers, Others and the State; 12 The French Contempt for Politics; 13 The Strikes of 1936; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612662294

9781472578099

1472578090

9781282662292

1282662295

9781845208967

184520896X

OCLC:

648760690