Vichy France and everyday life : confronting the challenges of wartime, 1939-1945 / edited by Lindsey Dodd and David Lees.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Dodd, Lindsey, editor.

Lees, David (Senior teaching fellow), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Social aspects.

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

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichy's National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history. The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the restrictions of Occupation, the shortages of daily necessities and the fear of persecution in their everyday lives. Using approaches drawn mostly from history, but also including oral history, film, gender studies and sociology, the text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women and children and opens new perspectives on questions of resistance, collaboration, war and memory; it tells some of the stories of the anonymous millions who suffered, coped, laughed, played and worked, either together at home or far apart in towns and villages across Occupied and Vichy France. Vichy France and Everyday Life is a crucial study for anyone interested in the social history of the Second World War or the history of France during the twentieth century.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781350011595

1350011592

OCLC:

987796948

Publisher Number:

99977721728