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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dodd, Lindsey.

Lees, David, active 2018.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--France--Vichy.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English and French.

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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

One. Coping and helping in wartime France

Two. Confrontation and challenge in wartime France.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-350-01162-2

1-350-01160-6

OCLC:

1032070736