The resurgence of the radical right in France : from Boulangisme to the Front National / Gabriel Goodliffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodliffe, Gabriel, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists--France--History--20th century.

Right-wing extremists.

Right-wing extremists--France--History--21st century.

France--Politics and government--20th century.

France.

France--Social conditions--20th century.

France--Politics and government--21st century.

France--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to account for the resurgence of significant political movements of the Radical Right in France since the establishment of democracy in the country at the end of the nineteenth century. Taking to task historical treatments of the Radical Right for their failure to specify the conditions and dynamics attending its emergence, and faulting the historical myopia of contemporary electoral and party-centric accounts of the Front National, it tries to explain the Radical Right's continuing appeal by relating the socio-structural outcomes of the processes of industrialization and democratization in France to the persistence of economically and politically illiberal groups within French society. Specifically, the book argues that, as a result of the country's protracted and uneven experience of industrialization and urbanization, significant pre- or anti-modern social classes, which remained functionally ill-adapted and culturally ill-disposed to industrial capitalism and liberal democracy, subsisted late into its development.

Contents:

Defining the radical right in France, past and present

The class-cultural roots of the radical right : structures and expressions of independance

The age of contentment : petits independants during the Belle Epoque

The fateful transition : petits independants in the interwar period

The eclipse of the petty producer Republic : petits independants from Vichy through the Fourth Republic

The age of decline : petits independants under the Fifth Republic

Epilogue : French workers in crisis and the entrenchment of the Front National

The radical right in France in comparative perspective.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22754-2

1-139-20967-1

1-280-48509-4

1-139-22256-2

9786613580078

1-139-21775-5

1-139-01493-5

1-139-21467-5

1-139-22427-1

1-139-22084-5

OCLC:

775869896